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ANNE FRANK: A HISTORY FOR TODAY
Travelling exhibition AIMS AND CONTENTS OF THE EXHIBITION
The aim of the international travelling exhibition 'Anne Frank - a history for today' is to encourage visitors to reflect critically on concepts such as tolerance, human rights, and democracy in today's multicultural world. This is done by telling Anne Frank's life story from the perspective of the Frank family and by relating this to the history of the Holocaust as told by other survivors.

The exhibition contains information that challenges the visitor to think about human nature and how processes and attitudes such as scapegoating, stereotyping, indifference, prejudice, discrimination, antisemitism and racism led to the Holocaust over a half-a-century ago, and to continued injustice in todays world.

AN EDUCATIONAL PROJECT
While the exhibition can stand on its own, it is more useful if it is integrated into a larger school or classroom context in which teachers and students explore the many complex issues surrounding the Holocaust, as well as other human rights violations in the past and present.

CONTENT OF THE PANELS
The story of Anne Frank's life is the common thread that runs through the exhibition. The exhibition, as such, has been divided into five periods. For each of these periods the exhibition highlights a theme that is also relevant today.

Opening panel:
This panel contains several quotations relating to Anne Frank and her diary. Different people view the Anne Frank and her diary in different ways.

Period I: 1929-1933
Anne's first four years. The rise of the Nazi Party. Theme: nationalism, scapegoating.

Period II: 1933-1939
The Frank family finds refuge in the Netherlands. Persecution and expul-sion of the Jews in Germany. Theme: the "cleansing" of human beings because they are regarded as different.

Period III: 1939-1942
The Frank family, along with other European Jews, are trapped. The active persecution of the Jews in eastern and western starts. Theme: shaping people's attitudes/civil courage.

Period IV: 1942-1945
The Frank family into hiding in the secret annex. It is here that Anne Frank writes her diary. Arrest and deportation. Theme: the Shoah ("one by one by one by one").

Period V: 1945-today
Publication of Anne Frank's diary and reactions to it. Theme: the importance of human rights and personal action.

TECHNICAL DETAILS
This exhibition consists of 32 new text and picture panels in colour print. This exhibition is especially suitable for presentations of the Anne Frank exhibiton in small and medium sized exhibition rooms (such as lobby's, libraries and large classrooms). In addition the panels can be easily placed and trans-ported. This edition of the exhibition come with flexible aluminium poles that the panels can be mounted onto. Measures of a single panel: approx. 1,4m x 1,4m. (to be placed on aluminum poles) Special requirements: One or more spaces are needed that are ideally 80m2 combined. One or two small ladders will help with set-up.

Construction time: It will take 4 persons approximately 5 hours to set up. Take down is approximately the same.
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