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Anne Frank Center USA Currently Showing Two Free Exhibits in New York...

Two exhibits on the life and times of Anne Frank are open and free to the public through December at The Anne Frank Center, USA in Manhattan. Anne Frank was one of 1.6 million children who died in the Holocaust. Audiences connect with the intimacy of Anne Frank: A Private Photo Album, everyday activities captured by Otto Frank before the Frank family went into hiding. Likewise, viewers get a sense of the persecution and genocide of WWII in Anne Frank: A History for Today. That these inhumane practices continue in countries around the world today moves audiences to examine their own moral obligations toward human rights.



Anne Frank: A Private Photo Album is a selection of photographs taken by Otto Frank of his daughters, Anne and Margot, and his wife, Edith, before the family was forced into hiding from the Nazis during WWII (1926-1941). They tell the story before the nightmare and round out the nearly mythic story of the brave Anne Frank, whom we have known only through the eloquence of her Diary. Otto Frank used a Leica camera revealing, as curator Victor Levie writes, an impeccable eye for detail, and that sense of self-consciousness created by the documentation of moments of importance. He could not have predicted how important those carefree moments of his daughters's lives would become.



Anne Frank: A History for Today uses texts and color photographic reproductions, beginning with Anne'ss birth in Frankfort in 1929. Audiences follow the Frank family'ss escape from Nazi Germany to The Netherlands four years later. The persecution of European Jews continued and as Anne turned thirteen, the Frank family was forced into hiding. Aided by four brave Dutch helpers, the Frank family survived two years in the Secret Annex before being deported to the death camps. Descriptions of the Holocaust and genocide along with testimony of the eye witnesses, Holocaust survivors and helpers, allows audiences to examine the role of collaborators, perpetrators, resisters and bystanders during the Nazi era.



The message of the exhibit is tolerance, said Shane K. Bernard of New Iberia, Louisiana. It'ss not simply about the Holocaust during World Wall II. There'ss a larger message there about tolerance, in general.



The 2006 exhibit schedule for The Anne Frank Center USA includes Halifax and Sidney, Nova Scotia, September 6 - January 31; Boise, Idaho, September 15 - October 15; Lincolnshire, Illinois, September 29 - October 13; Cor d'salene, Idaho, October 18 - November 18; and Jones County Georgia, November 7 - TBA.



The mission of The Anne Frank Center, USA, a non-profit founded in 1977, is to advance the legacy of Anne Frank by teaching the lessons of her time to young people and communities, and educate them on the consequences of intolerance and the need to identify and challenge prejudice. Through exhibitions, educational and public programs, The Center utilizes the diary and the spirit of Anne Frank to inspire and empower the next generation to build a world based on mutual respect.



The Anne Frank Center, USA is located at 38 Crosby Street, 5th floor, between Grand and Broom streets. Exhibit hours at the AFC are from 10 am to 5 pm, Monday through Thursday, and 9 am to 4 pm on Fridays through December. Admission is free although donations are appreciated. Appointments are suggested.



For additional information on exhibits, visit www.annefrank.com or contact the Exhibit Manager, Greg Radicone at 212-431-7993, ext. 304.



Maureen McNeil

The Anne Frank Center, USA

212-431-7993, ext. 302

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