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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.
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