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As a non-profit organization that helps shape global understanding of the Holocaust and its modern relevance, including lessons on modern anti-Semitism, racism and discrimination, the Anne Frank House is entrusted with the preservation of the annex where Anne Frank and her family went into hiding during World War II.
This exhibition, presented at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan, opens on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2025, to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
The exhibition is a first-of-its-kind, full-scale recreation of Anne Frank’s secret rooms, furnished as they would have been when Anne and her family were forced into hiding. Visitors will be introduced to the context that shaped Anna’s life, from her early years in Frankfurt to the rise of the Nazi regime and the family’s move to Amsterdam in 1934, where Anna lived until her arrest and deportation in 1944 in Westerbork, a large camp in the Netherlands, then to Auschwitz-Birkenau, a concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, and finally to her death in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany when she was 15 years old.
Designed for audiences who may not have the opportunity to visit the Netherlands, the exhibit will be among the most important presentations of Jewish history to be seen in the United States. Immersing visitors in place and history through video, audio, photography and animation, more than 100 original objects from Anne Frank’s house in Amsterdam will give the world the opportunity to learn about Anne Frank, not as a victim but through the multifaceted lens of her life—as a girl, a writer, and a symbol of resilience and strength.
The Anne Frank Report is a story inspired by one of the most translated books in the world. The exhibition will occupy over 7,500 square feet in the heart of Union Square. This is the first time dozens of artifacts will be on display in the United States – many have never been seen in public.
The objects of the exhibition include:
- The first photo album of Anne Frank (1929-1942).
- Anne Frank’s typed and handwritten invitation to her friend for a movie screening at her home. (until 1942, anti-Jewish measures prohibited Jews from going to the cinema).
- Anne Frank’s handwritten lyrics in her friends’ poetry albums.
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