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A Message on Behalf of the
Saskatoon Anne Frank Committee
message will inspire others to take a
T
he Saskatoon Anne Frank
Committee is proud to be more proactive role in building a
hosting the exhibit, Anne Frank compassionate community and
in the World 1929-1945, at the preventing hate crimes and other
Diefenbaker Canada Centre. This bias-related acts.
important exhibit was curated by the Anne Frank is an inspiring example
Anne Frank Foundation, Amsterdam, of the power of an individual voice.
The Anne Frank and comes to us from the Anne While her own life was cut tragically
in the World Frank Center, New York. It has been short, her story also celebrates
1929-1945 viewed by over three million people resistance, perseverance and the
Exhibit Tours worldwide. triumph of humanity over
Bringing the exhibit to our city has inhumanity.
May 16 - June 30, 2005
been realized through a coalition of We would like to thank the many
Open daily from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
some 30 community groups who dozens of volunteers who have
Free Admission
believe in Anne Frank’s universal and given selflessly of their time and the
Diefenbaker Canada Centre inspirational message that we need many organizations who have
University of Saskatchewan to collectively strive towards being a assisted us in raising the funds
101 Diefenbaker Place more just and inclusive community. necessary to bring Anne’s message
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan to Saskatoon. We wish especially to
In Saskatoon, we enjoy a quality of
For further information or to life not experienced by countries acknowledge and celebrate Mary
book tours, please call facing social upheaval, war and Miller (1943-2004) who, as Director
(306) 966-8384. widespread poverty. Yet, poverty, of the Diefenbaker Canada Centre,
racism and discrimination remain was passionate about hosting this
This exhibit is intended for exhibition.
serious problems. When we were
audiences 10 years of age and
approached by the Anne Frank The Saskatoon Anne Frank
over. Some viewers may find it
Center about hosting the Anne Frank Committee plans to continue the
disturbing.
in the World exhibit, many people work we have begun together in
saw this as an important opportunity addressing and healing racism and
to address the race relations other forms of discrimination in our
challenges that we face here and community. We welcome your
now. participation.
Moving, and at times
disturbing, the story of one
family’s experience in a
deadly decade of Michael Gertler
discrimination and genocide Fellow in Community and Co-operative
illustrates why communities Development, Centre for the Study of
must take action early Co-operatives, University of Saskatchewan
against all forms of
intolerance and prejudice.
We hope that the story of Monica Goulet
the Holocaust and Anne’s Cultural Diversity and Race Relations
Coordinator, City of Saskatoon
efforts to make sense of
what was happening to her
From left to right: Donna Scott, Monica Goulet, Michael Gertler family and community will
spark a critical examination
of the roots of anti-Semitism and Donna Scott, Q.C.
Chief Commissioner, Saskatchewan Human
other forms of racism. We hope too Rights Commission
that Anne’s hopeful and positive
2 Anne Frank in the World 1929-1945 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, May 16 - June 30, 2005
The Exhibit is an ideal vehicle for addressing intolerance; its universal
and inspirational message will poignantly remind audiences that we need
to collectively strive towards being a more just and inclusive community.
Why Bring the In July 1942, her family was forced
into hiding for fear of deportation.
Exhibit to
The ‘Secret Annex,’ a hidden room
Saskatoon? above her father’s office, became
their new ‘home.’
Anne Frank is an inspiring example
of the power of an individual voice, Anne faithfully recorded the next
and the ability to maintain faith in two years of hiding in her diary. In
humanity in the face of prejudice August 1944, when the ‘Secret
and human destructiveness. Annex’ was discovered, Anne and
her family were forcibly sent to
The lessons of her life and her
concentration camps in Eastern
writings will illustrate why
Europe. Anne died of typhus in the
discrimination and intolerance are
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
unacceptable, harmful, dangerous,
in March 1945.
and potentially lethal. Through
Anne Frank’s story, it is hoped that Anne’s diary was recovered after
a critical examination of prejudice, the war ended. Her father Otto, the
bias, and discrimination, and their only member of the Frank family to
root causes, will provoke survive the war, published her
understanding in people. words for the first time in 1947.
It is hoped that the viewer will take
an active role in the prevention of
hate crimes and bias-related acts,
Specific Goals of
serious problems that remain in the Exhibit
our community.
• To inform visitors about the
history of the Holocaust from
the perspective of the Frank
Who was Anne
family.
Frank?
• To affirm the need to accord all
Anne Frank’s name will be forever people just and equal
remembered thanks to the treatment.
extraordinary diary she kept of her
• To challenge each individual to
life during a time of war, hatred
think about the links between
and persecution.
values and choices, to show
Born to a Jewish family living in what can happen when mutual
Germany, Anne moved with her respect and one’s place in
family to Amsterdam (Holland) in society are not guaranteed, and
1933 in the hopes of avoiding the to urge everyone to be vigilant
growing anti-Semitism in Germany. about the infringement of
Her life was relatively carefree until human rights.
Germany invaded Holland in 1940
during the opening months of
World War II.
Anne Frank in the World 1929-1945 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, May 16 - June 30, 2005 3
A Message from the Lieutenant
Governor of Saskatchewan
The Anne Frank exhibit is an
I
t is my pleasure to extend
greetings on behalf of Her excellent opportunity for Canadians
Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, of all ages, and particularly young
Queen of Canada, upon the people, to learn about a dark period
opening of the Anne Frank exhibit of history through the eyes of a
at the Diefenbaker Canada Centre teenager. This fascinating exhibit
in Saskatoon. also raises important issues about
racism that are as relevant in 2005
As we celebrate our Centennial in in Saskatchewan as they were in
Saskatchewan, we have so much 1944 in Europe.
for which to give thanks, including
the fact that most Canadian I wish to thank the City of
children have never experienced Saskatoon, the Saskatchewan
the horrors of war. We live in one Human Rights Commission, and
of the world’s most privileged the many sponsors for bringing
nations, where we enjoy rights, this informative and meaningful
freedoms and a standard of living project to Saskatoon.
that are unimaginable by billions. It
is often easy to take our good Dr. L.M. Haverstock
fortune for granted. Lieutenant Governor
Province of Saskatchewan
A Message from the City
of Saskatoon Mayor
values is to work with community
A
s Mayor of Saskatoon it is my
pleasure to extend a warm organizations, business and labour,
welcome to all visitors to the all orders of government, and other
Anne Frank in the World 1929-1945 stakeholders to create an inclusive
exhibit. community, where cultural
diversity is welcomed and valued,
I am encouraged that you have and where everyone can live with
taken the opportunity to participate dignity and to their full potential,
in this important remembrance of without facing racism or
the Holocaust. By learning the story discrimination.
of Anne Frank we can attempt to
comprehend the hardship and To the Saskatoon Anne Frank
suffering endured, and understand Committee, friends and supporters,
the strength and courage of the I offer my thanks and appreciation
heroic individuals from this tragic for your efforts in bringing this
era in history. thought provoking exhibit to our
community.
Each and every one of us plays a
vital role in ensuring that there is Sincerely,
zero tolerance for racism and Donald J. Atchison
discrimination in our community. Mayor
One of the City of Saskatoon’s core
4 Anne Frank in the World 1929-1945 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, May 16 - June 30, 2005
A Message from the
Premier of Saskatchewan
Anne Frank in the World 1929-1945 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, May 16 - June 30, 2005 5
A Message from the
Saskatchewan Minister of Justice
inhumanity affects us all. Martin
I
am honoured to bring
greetings on behalf of the Luther King, Jr. once said,
Saskatchewan Department of “Injustice anywhere is a threat
Justice to all visitors to the Anne to justice everywhere. We are
Frank in the World exhibit. caught in an inescapable
network of mutuality, tied in a
Anne Frank’s story, combined single garment of destiny.
with haunting images of Nazi Whatever affects one directly,
terror and the Holocaust, serve affects all indirectly.”
as a sobering reminder of how
blessed we are to live in a free As we celebrate our Centennial
country. The events captured in and look to the future, we must
this exhibit demonstrate man’s do so with hope. If a young
capacity for evil when racism Anne Frank could find hope
and hatred are allowed to within her dire circumstances,
flourish within society. Never we can most certainly do the
before have we seen such same with great courage and
inhumanity and cruelty within a thanksgiving. My hope is that
generation, and hopefully we we, as a province, can lead this
will never see it again. country in the cause of social
justice to help ensure a
The events of the Holocaust peaceful, tolerant, and
force us to recognize the compassionate society for
importance of human rights and generations to come.
the role of our justice system in
protecting and maintaining I would like to congratulate the
those rights within society. The Saskatoon Anne Frank
greatest test of our system of Committee, the City of
justice is guaranteeing the rights Saskatoon, and everyone who
of citizens and inspiring their dedicated themselves to bring
trust and confidence in that this important exhibit to
system. Saskatchewan.
The magnitude of injustice that Yours sincerely,
took place during the dark days Frank Quennell, Q.C.
of the Holocaust is almost Minister of Justice and
inconceivable. It has echoed Attorney General
throughout history and will
continue to do so for
generations to come, if only as a
reminder of how such
6 Anne Frank in the World 1929-1945 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, May 16 - June 30, 2005
A Message from the University
of Saskatchewan President
believes that diversity and
O
n behalf of the University of
Saskatchewan, I am very multiculturalism are integral to the
pleased to welcome the success of this province and this
Anne Frank exhibit to the exhibit will compel the people of
Diefenbaker Canada Centre on the Saskatchewan to explore their own
University of Saskatchewan experiences with discrimination.
campus. I applaud all of those involved in
This dynamic exhibit on the life organizing this exhibition and
and experiences of Anne Frank encourage as many people as
from 1929-1945 will be of interest possible to take advantage of this
to many people in the educational and revealing display.
Saskatchewan community, and With best wishes,
bringing it to Saskatoon provides
them with an opportunity to see Peter MacKinnon
this very unique exhibit. President
The University of Saskatchewan
A Message from the
Congregation Shir Chadash
has also served to provide us with we acknowledge those issues, we
W
e are proud to participate
with the more than 30 an example of how non-Jewish must resolve to take action so
agencies and diverse people risked their lives to help that healing can truly happen. As
organizations, which have worked others. the famous philosopher George
tirelessly through the Steering Santayana said: "Those who
As we commemorate the 60th
Committee, to bring the world- cannot remember the past are
anniversary of the liberation of
class “Anne Frank in the World” condemned to repeat it."
the death camps and the end of
exhibit to Saskatoon. World War II, fewer survivors of May we all find visiting “Anne
Congratulations to the Steering the Holocaust remain to bear Frank in the World” an inspiration
Committee. Your dedication and witness to those horrific events. for Shalom…peace.
hard work is an example of what This exhibit honors the memory
Linda Epstein
our community can do when we of those who perished and shows
President
embrace cultural diversity and gratitude to those who reached
out in the face of adversity. It Congregation Shir Chadash was
harmony. We also thank the
provides the citizens of Saskatoon established in 2000. It provides a group
Diefenbaker Canada Centre for its of Jewish people with the opportunity to
generosity in hosting this exhibit. with an opportunity to learn from worship in both egalitarian and
the past, and to develop traditional services within a kosher
The story of Anne Frank is principles and hope for the environment.
powerful. It has come not only to future.
symbolize those horrors and
atrocities of the Holocaust, but In Saskatoon, we have our own
challenges and opportunities. As
Anne Frank in the World 1929-1945 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, May 16 - June 30, 2005 7
A Message from the
Congregation Agudas Israel
also admit that there is much more
T
he congregation is very
pleased to be partners with to be done. Canadian history and
so many fine organizations recent events can too easily provide
and individuals who are dedicated many examples of discrimination,
to making our community a better, racism and injustice.
Darkness cannot drive safer place for everyone. The story Inspiration is, literally, the breath of
out darkness; only light of Anne Frank illustrates the need the divine. We hope that each
for each one of us to maintain and visitor will be inspired to recognize
can do that. Hate cannot extend the umbrella of human and react to all forms of
drive out hate; only love rights. Hate is so easy to spread. discrimination and intolerance. In
can do that. Canada is often held aloft as an this way, our community and our
example of many peoples living world can be healed.
Martin Luther King, Jr. together in harmony, as a country Shalom,
where everyone has the
opportunity to enjoy the bounty David Katzman
from education, health care, and Congregation Agudas Israel
justice. We should be proud of our
collective successes but we must
A Message from the Saskatchewan
Indian Gaming Authority
sharing our success. The exhibit
O
n behalf of the
Saskatchewan Indian will challenge us to explore our
Gaming Authority (SIGA), I own experiences with
am pleased to welcome the Anne discrimination.
Frank exhibit to the city of I would like to congratulate the
Saskatoon. Saskatoon Anne Frank Committee,
Miskâsowin represents the value of as you have dedicated your time
finding one's sense of origin and and resources in organizing this
belonging. The goal of this principle project. I would like to extend a
is to celebrate a positive sense of warm welcome to the visitors of
origin and belonging among all us this exhibit and hope you find the
in a uniquely First Nations experience moving.
organization, driven by First Sincerely,
Nations culture and values.
Edmund Bellegarde
Wîtaskêwin, another of our SIGA CEO/President
powerful guiding principles, speaks
to living together in harmony and
8 Anne Frank in the World 1929-1945 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, May 16 - June 30, 2005
A Message from the Federation of
Saskatchewan Indian Nations
military to combat against racism.
O
n behalf of the Federation of
Saskatchewan Indian Many of these men and women
Nations, Member Nations, were First Nations and believed in
Executive, Senate and staff, I am the cause that they were fighting.
pleased to support the Saskatoon Veterans from across Canada,
Anne Frank Committee. including First Nations Veterans,
traveled overseas this year to
I would like to congratulate those commemorate VE-Day and to mark
who have dedicated their time in the 60th anniversary of the end of
organizing and bringing this the Second World War. We need to
opportunity to the Province of reflect on the sacrifices these
Saskatchewan. This exhibit people gave and learn from their
promises to be unique, as it will experiences.
share the life of Anne Frank and the
challenges she faced and it is an I would like to extend my greetings
opportunity to learn. to everyone and hope they find this
experience truly significant.
Men and women from across
Canada joined the ranks of the Chief Alphonse Bird
A Message from the
Saskatoon Tribal Council
I believe the Anne Frank display
F
irst Nations people believe
all life coming from the will inspire courage in the people
Creator is to be respected. who see it, those who read the
We denounce the Holocaust. We words of a brave child in hiding.
abhor the mistreatment of any It’s almost unfathomable that her
person, but especially of children. little diary – the pages once
It repulses me to think of scattered as she was torn from
innocent children being locked up her sanctuary – will be right here
in concentration camps and in our midst. The words she put her, but she said when she looked
starved. to paper will touch our First up to the sky she somehow felt
Nations and Métis people. These everything would “change for the
We, as First Nations people, want are words that will inspire those
to honor the memory of a little better and that this cruelty too
cast into any kind of ghetto – just shall end, that peace and
Jewish girl because of her as the Jews were in many
immense courage. We want to tranquility will return once more.’’
European cities.
thank the City of Saskatoon, I believe the Anne Frank exhibit
Mayor Don Atchison and Cultural What we will see in this exhibit will help us look to the sky.
Diversity and Race Relations demonstrates the tremendous
Coordinator Monica Goulet for will of people to survive. I am I would like to send sincere
their hard work in bringing this continually awed by the courage thanks to the Saskatoon Anne
world-class exhibit here to our that comes out of people. Frank Committee on behalf of the
city. Saskatoon Tribal Council.
Anne spoke of the “chaos,
suffering and death” all around Tribal Chief Glenn Johnstone
Anne Frank in the World 1929-1945 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, May 16 - June 30, 2005 9
Thank you to our Sponsors
We wish to acknowledge and thank all of the individuals and
organizations that have graciously donated funds and services
in-kind. We would not have been able to make this dream
become a reality without your support!
Department of Saskatchewan Justice
Saskatoon Tribal Council
Government of Canada
Cameco (Secret Annex)
Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority
Human Resources and Skills Development Canada
Saskatoon StarPhoenix
Saskatchewan Department of First Nations & Métis Government Relations
Saskatchewan Lotteries
B’nai Brith, Saskatoon
City of Saskatoon
Mendel Art Gallery
Diefenbaker Canada Centre
President’s Office, University of Saskatchewan
United Community Funds of Saskatoon
Congregation Agudas Israel
CP Rail, Saskatchewan Service Area
Saskatoon Foundation (Art Smart)
Sherwood Chevrolet
University Secretary’s Office, University of Saskatchewan
Native Law Centre, University of Saskatchewan
Department of Sociology, University of Saskatchewan
Congregation Shir Chadash Sisterhood
Saskatoon Public School Division
Saskatoon Catholic School Division
Saskatoon Police Service
College of Law, University of Saskatchewan
Sheraton Cavalier
SaskTel
AMJ Campbell
Official Transporter of the Anne Frank Exhibit
901-57th Avenue N.E., Calgary Toll free: 1-800-661-3993
10 Anne Frank in the World 1929-1945 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, May 16 - June 30, 2005
The Saskatoon Anne Frank
Committee Membership
Secretariat and Co-conveners:
City of Saskatoon Cultural Diversity and Race Relations Office
Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission
B’nai Brith, Saskatoon Saskatchewan Intercultural Association
Congregation Agudas Israel Saskatchewan Learning
Congregation Shir Chadash Saskatoon Catholic School Division
Diefenbaker Canada Centre Saskatoon Catholic Schools Foundation (Brokers)
Eagle Feather News Saskatoon Community Youth Arts Programming
Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations Saskatoon Public Library
Gabriel Dumont Institute of Native Studies and Applied Research Saskatoon Public School Division
Government of Canada Saskatoon Tribal Council
Mendel Art Gallery Shir Chadash Sisterhood
Native Access to Nursing Program, U.of S. and SIAST United Way of Saskatoon
Persephone Theatre University of Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority
Participating Schools
Aden Bowman Collegiate Fairhaven North Park Wilson St. Mathew
Aberdeen Father Megret North West Central St. Michael
Allan Father Robinson Nutana Collegiate St. Peters
Big River Forest Grove Ogema St.Volodymyr
Bishop Klein Grean Leaf Hutterite Colony Osler Sunningdale
Bishop James Mahoney Greystone Heights Plains Mennonite Tisdale
Bedford Road Collegiate Hector Thiboutot Prairie View Turtleford
Brevoort Park Herbert Prince Philip Val Marie
Briercrest Holliston Princess Alexandra Venture Heights
Brownell Holy Cross Queen Elizabeth Vincent Massey
Brunskill Holy Cross (P.A) Riverbend Colony W.P Bate
Buena Vista Holy Family (N.B.) Roland Michener Walter Aseltane
Caroline Robins Howard Coad Silverspring Warman
Carrot River Hugh Cairns V.C. Silverwood Heights Westmount
Caswell Invermay St. Angela White Fox
City Park Collegiate John D’or Prairie St. Anne’s Whitewood
College Park John Lake St. Bernard Walter Murray Collegiate
Davidson Kelliher St. Francis Zenon Park
Delisle Composite King George St. George
Dinsmore Lakeridge St. Henry
Dr. John G. Egnatoff Lakeview St. James
Dumont Tech Institute Langham St. John’s
Dundonald Lawson Heights St. Luke
Ecole Vickers Milden St. Mark
Esten Mt. Royal Collegiate St. Mary (Regina)
This magazine will be available free of charge for all visiting students
thanks to the generous donation of Elaine and Sherwood Sharfe.
Anne Frank in the World 1929-1945 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, May 16 - June 30, 2005 11
Coming Together - Uniting Projects
Events Coinciding with Anne Frank in the World 1929-1945
The Saskatoon Foundation and The Saskatchewan Human The Saskatoon Anne Frank
the Mendel Art Gallery Rights Commission Presents... Committee Presents...
Present...
The 2005 Annual Social Justice
DiverCity Conference of the Youth Art Retreat
DiverCity is an exhibition at the Canadian Selected youth from the community
Mendel Art Gallery featuring Association of and local professional artists will
Celebrating Culture panels created use visual and literary art to express
by the students of St. Goretti Statutory Human
their personal views on Anne
School, as well as artworks from the Rights Agencies Frank’s story, racism, discrimination,
Mendel Art Gallery’s permanent (CASHRA) and the importance of human rights
collection and video documentaries diversity. The youth will create
As one of the organizing partners
completed by Walter Murray panels that reflect their feelings and
bringing Anne Frank in the World
Collegiate students. Students of the opinions about how these issues
Media Studies 20 class at Walter
1929-1945 to Saskatoon, the
Saskatchewan Human Rights pertain to our community. The
Murray Collegiate researched, panels will form part of the Anne
Commission is proud to feature the
wrote, filmed, and edited a Frank in the World 1929-1945 exhibit
exhibit during the upcoming
documentary video based on the and will remain in Saskatoon to
CASHRA conference. The
stories of recent immigrants from serve as a legacy for the years to
conference will provide delegates
war-torn countries. come.
from across the country with the
May 16 - June 30, 2005 opportunity to view this meaningful
For more information contact the exhibit on one of its few stops in
Mendel Art Gallery at (306) 975-7610 Canada.
or visit www.mendel.ca
SCYAP and Cameco Presents...
The Anne Frank Secret Annex Project
May 16 - June 30, 2005
Saskatoon Community Youth Arts Programming (SCYAP)
253 - 3rd Avenue S, Saskatoon
Youth at the SCYAP centre will host a Community Journaling Workshop. This free
workshop, which operates on a drop-in basis, includes three major components:
• A guide and interactive tour of a reproduction of the Frank family’s hiding place, the
‘Secret Annex’
• A tour of an exhibition of commissioned artworks created by marginalized or ‘at risk’
youth
• A hands-on journaling exercise and opportunity to participate in the Community
Journal
Hours:
Tuesday, Saturday, Sunday 11:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 11:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Closed Mondays
For more information contact Bevin Bradley at (306) 652-7760 or visit www.scyapinc.org.
This project is funded in part by the City of Saskatoon.
12 Anne Frank in the World 1929-1945 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, May 16 - June 30, 2005
Holocaust Survivor Opens
Saskatoon Exhibit
It took Miklos Kanitz more than 50 years to gain
the courage to speak of his childhood experiences.
Hungarian Jews were excluded In June 1944, Miklos and his
E
ach year around this time
Jews worldwide gather to from all social and economic life family were taken out of the
commemorate the worst in Hungary. At this time, all able- ghetto by a Christian friend of his
genocide in human history: the bodied Jewish males were taken mother, who risked her own life to
murder of six million Jewish into work battalions. Of the more hide them in a root cellar located
people, more than one-and-a-half than 100,000 labourers in her yard. Miklos and his family
million of them children. This year conscripted, only a handful spent the next seven terrifying
Saskatoon has been awarded the survived the war. months hiding in the cellar,
privilege of hosting the exhibit, constantly fearing discovery.
The very limited sense of security
Anne Frank in the World, the start Thanks to the arrival of the Soviet
enjoyed by Hungarian Jews came
of which coincides with the army in February 1945, Miklos
to an end in March 1944 at which
Holocaust Memorial days. Anne and his family were finally able to
time the Hungarian Nazi Party
Frank was a hidden child who, leave their hiding place.
(Arrow Cross), with the aid of the
through the betrayal of someone, German army, seized power in Miklos’s father, Peter, escaped
was discovered and later perished Hungary and the roundup of the from the slave camp in February
in the fires of the Holocaust. Hungarian Jews commenced. 1945 only to be captured and
Miklos Samual Kanitz, now a During one of these round-ups, imprisoned by the advancing
resident of Saskatoon, was also a Miklos, his mother, and older Russian armies. He later managed
hidden child during the brother Julius, were taken to a to return to his family in
Holocaust, but unlike Anne Frank, ghetto in Budapest, the site of an December 1945.
he and his immediate family abandoned factory yard.
survived. Of numerous family members
Eventually, there were more than
from both sides of his family, only
The Saskatoon Anne Frank 15,000 Jews held in this
six survived the horrors of the
Committee is honoured that compound under the most
Holocaust. It took Miklos more
Miklos has agreed to speak at the primitive conditions. During his
than 50 years to gain the courage
Saskatoon opening of the Anne stay at the ghetto, Miklos
to speak of his childhood
Frank in the World 1929-1945 witnessed numerous murders and
experiences. Since then, he has
exhibit. the most brutal treatment
related the story of his survival to
committed by the Arrow Cross
Born in Budapest, Miklos was thousands of Saskatchewan
soldiers. In May, selections began
just a toddler at the outbreak of students and has been a guest
and nearly all the Jews held at
World War II in September 1939. speaker to numerous civic and
this ghetto were shipped to
The Hungarian government, professional groups. Like Nanette
Auschwitz where they were
despite pressure from Nazi Konig, a childhood friend of Anne
immediately gassed and cremated
officials, resisted the deportation Frank, Miklos holds the firm belief
upon arrival. Between May 15,
of the 750,000 Jews living in that those who survived the
1944 and June 6, 1944, more than
Hungary to the German-run Holocaust must bear witness to
500,000 Hungarian Jewish
concentration camps. This did not what happened.
women, men and children were
stop the Horti government from shipped out and then brutally
enacting anti-Jewish laws murdered upon arrival to
fashioned after Hitler’s Auschwitz.
Nuremberg laws, and by 1941
Anne Frank in the World 1929-1945 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, May 16 - June 30, 2005 13
1929 – Story
The Anne Frank 1945
“One single Anne Frank moves us more than the countless
others who suffered just as she did but whose faces have
remained in the shadows. Perhaps it is better that way; if
we were capable of taking in all the suffering of all those
people, we would not be able to live.”
– Primo Levi, author and survivor of Auschwitz, 1986
The End
On January 27, 1945, shortly Later that summer, he begins to
after his wife Edith’s death at accept that his children have
Auschwitz-Birkenau, Otto Frank probably died. At the same time,
is liberated from the he is presented with a package
concentration camp by the containing photos and
Russian army. He does not know notebooks which Miep Gies has
at this time the fate of his rescued from the Secret Annex
daughters, Margot, born 1926, where the Frank family hid
and Anneliese Marie, born in between 1942 and 1944. For
1929. Upon liberation, Otto weeks, Otto Frank refuses to
Frank is first taken by the look at the package.
Russians to Odessa, and finally
he is allowed to go to France, by “I had it in my hands but
way of Marseille. I couldn’t read it yet.”
Eventually, Otto Frank makes his -Otto Frank, August 26, 1945
way to the family home in
Amsterdam, where on June 3, Finally, on October 24, Otto
1945 he is re-united with former Frank receives notification in the
co-workers Miep and Jan Gies. form of a letter that Margot and
The desperate search is on for Anne are both dead.
his daughters. A few months later, in 1946,
there is reference in a Dutch
“I still hope to find my children,”
newspaper to a diary kept by
-Otto Frank, July 7, 1945
Anne Frank. In the summer of
1947, the first 1,500 copies of
14 Anne Frank in the World 1929-1945 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, May 16 - June 30, 2005
“The Diary of Anne Frank” are worldwide Jewish conspiracy to capitulates to the invaders and
published by Contact Publishers destroy the foundations of the country comes under
in Amsterdam. In 1951 the diary ‘Aryan life.’ The book is to German occupation.
is translated into English. become the signature theme of
The noose begins to tighten on
the Nazis and their blueprint for
The book by the young Anne the Jewish community. One of
a thousand year Reich– the
Frank fires the imagination of the first tasks of the Nazis is to
Greater German
the public and is re-published register all people of Jewish
Commonwealth.
and translated numerous times, descent.
eventually becoming one of the Within a few years the author of
In short order, the German
most widely read books in the that book, Adolph Hitler,
occupation decrees that all
world. becomes the rising star of
Jewish students must be
German politics and in an
expelled from Dutch public
election in 1932, his National
schools, so Anne and Margot
The Beginning Socialism party (the Nazis)
enroll in the Jewish School of
captures 37.3 per cent of the
The Frank family can trace its Amsterdam.
vote and is asked to form a
origins to at least the 17th coalition government. On June 12, 1942, in celebration
century in the German city of of her thirteenth birthday, Anne
Frankfurt. Both Anne Frank’s By 1934, with the tide of state-
receives a diary from her father
parents are natives of German sponsored anti-Semitism rising
at a party attended by many
soil – her father Otto born on in Germany, the entire Frank
friends. One of the young people
May 12, 1889 in Frankfurt and family re-locate to the
at that party is Nanette Konig,
her mother, Edith Hollander, Netherlands, a country which is
who later is transported to a
born on January 16, 1900 in considered tolerant and which
concentration camp – survives
Aachen. was neutral during WWI.
the ordeal – and after the war
During the First World War, Otto It is here where Anne attends meets Otto Frank. Nanette is one
Frank serves in the German kindergarten at the Montessori of the first people to read the
Army as a lieutenant. School. She is a happy child published diary of Anne Frank.
who enjoys her school work and
In 1925, Otto and Edith are However, not long after Anne
has many friends to play with.
joined in holy matrimony. Frank’s happy birthday party,
Although general war has disturbing news shatters the
Two months after their wedding, broken out in Europe, families already-nervous family. On July
a malcontent, petty politician such as the Franks try to 5, Margot Frank, then 16 years
from Austria publishes the book maintain as normal a life as old, receives notice to report for
“Mein Kampf,” or “My possible. deportation to a “labour camp.”
Struggle.” While serving a
prison term for a failed coup But on May 10, 1940, German The Frank family immediately
attempt in Munich, Adolph Hitler paratroopers launch a surprise decides to go into hiding. They
outlines his mission in life – to attack on Holland and within five leave their home forever and go
eliminate the threat posed by a days the Dutch government into the “Secret Annex” of Otto
Anne Frank in the World 1929-1945 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, May 16 - June 30, 2005 15
Frank’s business at 263 With German security forces too large or too small to be
Prinsengracht. actively searching for Jews, omitted from her curious mind.
extreme caution has to be taken
It is to be their secret home for “Daddy, Mummy, and Margot can’t
by everyone at all times.
the next 25 months and where
Although there is a Dutch get used to the sound of the Westertoren
Anne Frank will fill
resistance movement, it is small, [Church] clock yet, which tells us
approximately 300 pages of
and there are enough the time every quarter of an hour.
diary and notebook paper with
collaborators to make life for
her thoughts, fears, and hopes, I can. I loved it from the start,
Jews perilous.
and the daily minutiae which and especially in the night it’s like
describe the secret life of an Otto Frank’s business associates a faithful friend.”
oppressed family. help the families in hiding,
-Anne Frank, July 11, 1942
bringing them food, water and
other supplies.
The Diary In a short period from May 20,
Hiding from the Nazi forces is a
1942 until the family is betrayed
Eight people reside in Secret game of patience and learning
and arrested in August 4, 1944,
Annex at 263 Prinsengracht in to overcome boredom overlain
Anne Frank busily rewrites and
Amsterdam. In addition to the with fear as one day passes into
edits her original diary. She
four members of the Frank the next.
dreams of writing a novel about
family, there are Mr. and Mrs. the Secret Annex, or
van Daan, their teenage son “Believe me, if you have been shut up “Achterhuis.”
Peter, and Mr. Dussel. for a year and a half, it can get too
Those who most actively assist much for you some days. Cycling, “You’ve known for a long time
the people in hiding are Mr. dancing, whistling, looking out into the that my greatest wish is to be a
Koophuis, Miep Gies, Elli Vassen world, feeling young, to know that I’m journalist and, later on, a famous
and Mr. Kraler. free – that’s what I long for . . . .” writer. In any case, after the war
-Anne Frank, December 24, 1943
“The entrance to our hiding place I’d like to publish a book called
has been properly concealed. The Secret Annex.”
It is clear that even in her
Mr. Kraler thought it would be better teenage years, Anne Frank
-Anne Frank, May 11, 1944
to put a cupboard in front of the door, desires to be a writer. Those
but of course it had to be a moveable who have read “The Diary,” and “At long last I have started my
cupboard that can open like a door. other material she produces, Achterhuis, in my head it is as
Mr. Vossen made the whole thing.” remark at the young woman’s
powers of observation. Like all
good as finished.”
-Anne Frank, July 11, 1942
good writers, she makes use of -Anne Frank, May 20, 1944
the world around her. Nothing is
16 Anne Frank in the World 1929-1945 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, May 16 - June 30, 2005
Anne Frank never finishes “Could we be granted victory
writing Achterhuis. When the
Frank family is betrayed, they
this year, 1944? We don’t
are arrested by German security know yet, but hope is revived
forces and taken to Westerbork, within me; it gives us fresh courage,
the main transit point for Dutch and makes us strong again.”
Jews being sent to the - Anne Frank, June 5, 1944
concentration camps.
The family is split up and Anne The last we know of Anne Frank
is put on a train with many is when her father Otto receives
others, crowded like cattle, given a letter from the International
no food or water, and taken first Red Cross in 1954 confirming
to Auschwitz-Birkenau, then later that Anne died there of typhus
to Bergen Belsen, two of the just before the camp was
most notorious Nazi liberated by the British Army.
extermination camps. Records indicate that a few days
At Bergen Belsen, Anne Frank before Anne dies, her sister
and her classmate Nanette Margot falls from a bunk above,
and because of her weakened “One of the wisest and most
Konig meet briefly across the
state, dies from shock after moving commentaries on war.”
barbed wire fence separating
sections of the camp. Anne tells hitting the barracks floor. - Eleanor Roosevelt, framer of
Nanette about her diary and the Universal Declaration of
When her father, Otto Frank, Human Rights, 1948
how one day she still hopes to receives Anne’s notes after the
write a novel about her war, friends persuade him to
experiences in the Secret Annex. publish the diary. It first appears
We don’t know if Anne in print in 1947 under the title “Some of us read Anne Frank’s
continues writing while at “Het Achterhuis” (The Annex). diary on Robben Island and derived
Bergen Belsen. We do not know On August 19, 1980, Otto Frank much encouragement from it.”
what she experienced at this passes away at his home in - Nelson Mandela, president
concentration camp. Nothing of Birsfelden, Switzerland, at the of South Africa, 1994
hers survives the time she age of 91.
spends at Bergen Belsen.
But her writings from the Secret
Annex in 1944 still speak of
optimism.
Anne Frank in the World 1929-1945 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, May 16 - June 30, 2005 17
The Holocaust and World War II
party was proclaimed the only Later that year in September,
W
orld War II can be
roughly divided into two legal political party in Germany. Germany occupied the
distinct campaigns. The Sudentenland, followed six
The period 1934 to 1935 saw
war we talk about the most, months later when German
Hitler steadily consolidate
that’s written about extensively troops occupied large parts of
power. Through large public
in our history books, some of Czechoslovakia.
rallies, skillful propaganda and
our novels, and a spate of the strong arm tactics of the Throughout the course of this
Hollywood movies, is the war of Gestapo, opposition was naked German aggression and
nation state against nation state. eliminated or cowed into despite the pleas of various
The Axis versus the Allies. Their silence. nationalities in Europe, England
professional soldiers against and France remained docile. It
ours. A struggle for military, In September 1935, Germany
was not until September 1939,
political and economic enacted the Nuremberg Laws
when Hitler invaded Poland, that
supremacy in the world. which declared that Jews were
the two nations declared war on
no longer citizens of Germany,
The other is the war against the Germany and full scale fighting
and prevented Jews from
Jews. Even before the German began on a number of fronts
marrying members of the Aryan
invasion of Poland which throughout Europe.
race. For nearly a decade before
triggered WWII, the National the start of WWII, Hitler had Hitler’s contempt for the Jews
Socialism (Nazi) movement had already shown himself to be a was well known, as evidenced
begun, as far back as 1933 when fanatical racist. by his writing in 1926 of “Mein
Hitler was appointed Chancellor, Kampf” and his policies as
to take discriminatory action The plan for the thousand-year
chancellor of Germany in the
against German citizens of Reich was beginning to unfold –
mid-1930’s. But few had any
Jewish origin. at its centre was the purification
inkling of the fate that would
of the Aryan race and the need
In April of that year, Germans befall the Jews of Europe at the
for lebensraum . . . space for the
were being urged to boycott start of WWII.
German people to expand.
Jewish shops and businesses That quickly changed when the
and Jews were barred from One of the first steps in March
German army took control of
holding positions in the civil 1938 was Anschluss with
Poland. Almost immediately,
service and the universities. Austria, bringing this German-
Jews were forced into ghettos in
speaking country under Hitler’s
In May of 1933 there were public Polish cities. Soon, Austrian and
rule. All of Germany’s anti-
burnings of books by Jewish Czech Jews were being
Semitic polices were
authors. On July 14, the Nazi transported to these Polish
immediately applied to Austria.
“… the Jews of Canada remember the six million of our European
brethren who were murdered by the Nazis and we vow ‘Never Again.’”
18 Anne Frank in the World 1929-1945 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, May 16 - June 30, 2005
ghettos. Jews in German- The scale of Jewish killing Russians from the East – turned
occupied areas were forced to escalated dramatically in 1942 their full fury on the Nazis.
wear an arm band or yellow star with large-scale exterminations
But even as German forces were
to identify themselves. at Belzec, then at Sobibor,
retreating, the Nazis continued
Auschwitz, Treblinka, Majdanek,
Hitler’s “Jewish problem” operating their extermination
Buchenwald, and other death
became even larger in the spring camps almost to the last minute.
camps.
of 1940 when, on May 10,
When Soviet troops liberated
German armies wheeled into For four years, from 1941 to
the first of the camps -
western Europe in a 500- 1944, the Nazis systematically
Auschwitz in January 27 – they
kilometer arc stretching from the murdered millions of European
were horrified at the condition of
Netherlands, to Belgium and to Jews. In the concentration
those few remaining Jews.
France. Within five days the camps, Jews were forced to
Further evidence of Nazi
Dutch government capitulated. labour until many died of
atrocities emerged when U.S.
Within five weeks of that starvation. Many more became
forces liberated 20,000 prisoners
springtime onslaught, Hitler victims of unimaginable cruelty
at Buchenwald on April 11 and
controlled Paris. through bizarre medical
then again at Dachau on April
experiments.
Now, in addition to some three 29, when 32,000 more Jews
million Jews in Poland, the Nazi But at the height of the Nazi were set free.
occupiers controlled hundreds of killing spree, the tides of war
Although the end was not quick,
thousands of more Jews in were starting to turn against the
it was complete. On April 30,
western Europe. As Hitler’s Axis. Hitler’s ill-fated campaign
1945, Hitler committed suicide
military conquests expanded against the Soviet Union in 1941
and a few days later came V-E
through Greece, Yugoslavia and ultimately ended in defeat for
Day, Germany surrendered, the
beyond, many more Jews were the German army and the loss
Third Reich expired.
targeted by the Nazis. of valuable military assets. The
Japanese attack on Pearl Each November on
In 1941, with the appointment of
Harbour, in December 1941, Remembrance Day, Canadians
Adolph Eichmann as head of
brought the United States into of all faiths pay tribute to the
Jewish affairs of the Reich
the global conflict. From their thousands of men and women
security office, the massacre of
bases in England, the Allies who paid the ultimate sacrifice
Europe’s Jewish population
started getting the upper hand in to free the world of
began on a large scale.
the air war over Europe and totalitarianism.
June of that year witnessed the gave them time to mount an
In addition to that, the Jews of
first wave of Einsatzgruppen invasion force to repel the
Canada remember the six
killings – death by special German armies.
million of our European brethren
mobile squads. In two days of
The beginning of the end came who were murdered by the
September, 34,000 Jews were
on D-Day June 6, 1944 with the Nazis and vow “Never Again.”
massacred at Babi Yar in today’s
Allied invasion of Normandy.
Ukraine. In December, the
Now, two mighty armies – the
Chelmo extermination camp
Allies from the west and the
killings began.
Anne Frank in the World 1929-1945 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, May 16 - June 30, 2005 19
1933 1935 1938 1939
Jan 30 Sept 15 Nov 9 - 10 Sept 1
Adolf Hitler
Nuremberg Kristallnacht Beginning of
appointed
Laws enacted (Night of World War II:
Chancellor
– Jews Broken Glass) Germany
of Germany
no longer invades
considered Poland
A Timeline of the citizens
Holocaust and World War II
1933 January 30 Adolf Hitler September 30 Munich October 12 Germany
appointed Chancellor of Conference: Great Britain begins deportation of
Germany and France agree to Austrian and Czech Jews to
German occupation of the Poland.
March 22 Dachau
Sudetenland
concentration camp opens November 23 Jews in
November 7 German-occupied Poland
April Boycott of Jewish
Assassination in Paris of forced to wear arm band or
shops and businesses;
German diplomat Ernst yellow star
Jews barred from holding
vom Rath by Herschel
civil service, university and
Grynszpan
state positions; Gestapo
1940 April 9 Germany occupies
established November 9-10
Denmark and southern
Kristallnacht (Night of
May 10 Public burning of Norway
Broken Glass): anti-Jewish
books written by Jews
pogroms in Germany, May 7 Lodz Ghetto sealed:
July 14 Nazi party Austria, the Sudentenland. 165,000 people in 1.6
proclaimed sole legal 200 synagogues destroyed, square miles
political party in Germany 7,500 Jewish shops looted,
30,000 male Jews sent to May 10 Germany invades
concentration camps. Netherlands, Belgium,
Luxembourg, and France
1934 August 2 Hitler proclaims November 12 All Jews
himself Fuhrer and forced to transfer May 20 Concentration
Reichskanzler businesses to Aryan hands camp established at
Auschwitz
November 15 All Jewish
students expelled from June 22 France
1935 September 15
German schools surrenders
Nuremberg Laws enacted –
Jews no longer considered November 16 Warsaw
citizens, Jews cannot marry Ghetto sealed: ultimately
Aryans 1939 March 15 Germans contained 500,000 people
occupy Czechoslovakia
August 23 Molotov-
1938 March 13 Anschluss Ribbentrop Pact signed; 1941 March Adolf Eichmann
(incorporation of Austria); non-aggression pact appointed head of the
all anti-Semitic decrees between Germany and department for Jewish
immediately applied to Soviet Union affairs of the Reich Security
Austria Main Office
September 1 Beginning
June 13 Evian Conference of World War II: Germany April 6 Germany attacks
held in Evian, France on the invades Poland Yugoslavia and Greece
problem of Jewish refugees
September 21 Directives June 22 Germany invades
(No country agrees to open
to establish ghettos in the Soviet Union
borders to Jews)
German-occupied Poland
20 Anne Frank in the World 1929-1945 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, May 16 - June 30, 2005
1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945
May 10 March Jan 20 April 19 June 6 Jan 27
Germany invades Adolf Eichmann Wannsee Warsaw Ghetto D-Day: Allied Soviet troops
Netherlands, appointed head of Conference in revolt begins; invasion at liberated 8,000
Belgium, the department for Berlin: Heydrich Jewish Normandy prisoners left
Luxembourg, Jewish Affairs of outlines the Final underground behind at the
and France the Reich Security Solution to the fights Nazis until Auschwitz complex
Main Office Jewish Problem early June May 8 Germany
surrenders, end of
Third Reich
June-December First Summer Deportation of 1945 January 17 Evacuation of
wave of Einsatzgruppen; Jews from France, Holland, Auschwitz, beginning of
mobile killing force Belgium, Warsaw Ghetto, death march – other camps
to killing centres to follow
September 28-29 34,000
Jews massacred at Babi Yar 1943 January German 6th army January 27 Soviet troops
outside Kiev surrenders at Stalingrad liberate 8,000 prisoners left
behind at the Auschwitz
October Establishment of March 25 Liquidation of
complex
Auschwitz II (Birkenau) for Krakow ghetto
the extermination of Jews April 11 U.S. troops
April 19 Warsaw Ghetto
and others liberate 20,000 prisoners at
revolt begins; Jewish
Buchenwald
December 7 Japanese underground fights Nazis
attack Pearl Harbour until early June April 29 U.S. troops
liberate approximately
December 8 Chelmno June Himmler orders the
32,000 prisoners at Dachau.
extermination camp begins liquidation of all ghettos in
operations: 340,000 Jews, Poland and Soviet Union April 30 Hitler commits
20,000 Poles and Czechs suicide
October 14 Armed revolt
murdered by April 1943
in Sobibor extermination May 8 V-E Day: Germany
December 11 U.S. camp surrenders, end of Third
declares war on Japan and Reich
October-November
Germany
Rescue of Danish Jewry August 6 Bombing of
Hiroshima
1942 January 20 Wannsee August 9 Bombing of
1944 March 19 Germany
Conference in Berlin: Nagasaki
occupies Hungary
Heydrich outlines the Final
August 15 V-J Day;
Solution to the Jewish May 15 Nazis begin
Victory over Japan
Problem deporting Hungarian Jews
proclaimed
to death camps
March 17 Extermination
September 7 Japan
begins at Belzec. By end of June 6 D-Day: Allied
surrenders; end of World
1942, 600,000 Jews invasion at Normandy
War II
murdered
July 20 Group of German
November 22 Nuremberg
May Extermination by gas officers attempt to
War Crimes Tribunal
begins in Sobibor, by assassinate Hitler
commences. Trials end on
October 1943, 250,000 Jews
July 24 Russians liberate October 1, 1946, with
murdered
Majdanek death camp sentencing of 12 to death, 3
July 22 Germans to life imprisonment, 4 to
establish Treblinka November 8 Beginning of various prison terms and 3
death march of acquitted.
approximately 40,000 Jews
from Budapest to Austria
Anne Frank in the World 1929-1945 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, May 16 - June 30, 2005 21
Anne Frank
In the World Today
The Anne Frank Center, USA
“Founded in 1977, the Anne Frank Center, USA is a also has an extensive on-line
store which houses an excellent
non-sectarian, educational organization that promotes collection of books about Anne
the universal message of tolerance.” Frank – the diary and her other
writings, commentary and
analysis, biography, and history.
T
he Anne Frank Exhibit we A major focus of the Anne Frank
This particular exhibit on view in
are privileged to help Center, USA is to educate young
Saskatoon, entitled Anne Frank
sponsor is but one of people and communities about
in the World 1929-1945, is
several exhibitions and other issues of intolerance and
intended to inform visitors about
materials that are available from prejudice in the world today. It
the history of the Holocaust
the Anne Frank Center, USA, a does this by preserving the
from the perspective of Anne
not-for-profit organization based legacy of Anne Frank and
Frank and her family. It is based
in New York. through the creation of
on historical facts and events
Founded in 1977, the Anne Frank inspirational and educational
which severely impacted the
Center, USA is a non-sectarian, tools that are made available to
lives of this German-Jewish
educational organization that schools and to the general
family.
promotes the universal message public.
This exhibit is a useful way to
of tolerance. Since it was first published in
provide people with an
The Center has three broad 1947, Anne Frank’s diary has
understanding of the basic
program areas: been translated into more than
events of World War I and World
67 languages. Its message of
• the North American Travelling War II. It shows how the ideas of
hope and courage has become
Exhibit Program; Nazism developed from the first
one of the most widely read
gradual steps of stripping away
• the Exhibition and Education books in the world. Because she
the civil rights of Jews and the
Center in New York City; was a teenager herself, Anne
disabled, to grow into an
Frank’s story is especially
• the Annual Spirit of Anne unprecedented campaign of
meaningful to contemporary
Frank Awards. savage genocide – a
young people.
government policy of killing
The Spirit of Anne Frank Awards The Anne Frank Center, USA Jews, Gypsies, disabled people,
are designed to honour those maintains extensive resources homosexuals and Slavic people.
who have taken significant and links that are designed to be
initiatives to fight discrimination One of the purposes of the Anne
accessed directly by school-age
and to teach tolerance. Among Frank Center, USA is to
children. In addition, there are
its internationally-renowned encourage visitors to take a
numerous aids that have been
patrons is the Governor General more active role in
developed over the years to
of Canada, the Right Honourable understanding current events in
assist professional educators.
Adrienne Clarkson. their own community, and
around the globe, to be more
22 Anne Frank in the World 1929-1945 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, May 16 - June 30, 2005
aware of current issues of hiding from the Nazis until they • The Anne Frank Zentrum in
prejudice, discrimination, were betrayed by an unknown Berlin houses materials
violence, and genocide. collaborator. related to war-time Germany
and is very proactive in
“The 20th century has been one The canal-side house consists of
encouraging German school
of repeated genocides from the two sections, where visitors will
children to gain an accurate
Armenians in World War I to the see where Otto Frank carried out
understanding of the horrors
Holocaust in World War II to his business, and the Secret
inflicted by that country’s
post-1945 Cambodia, Rwanda, Annex, where the Frank family
National Socialist movement
the former Yugoslavia and today hid.
(unfortunately its website is
in Kosovo, East Timor and the
Over the years following the only available in the German
Darfur region of Sudan,” states
war, the Annex remained in its language).
a guide to the Center. At the
authentic state. In 1998, the front
same time, we must try to work • The Anne Frank-Fonds
part of the house was restored
to prevent future genocides and located in Switzerland was
based on historical photographs
be informed, committed citizens established as a foundation
and blueprints.
who are unafraid to take by Otto Frank and the Swiss
personal responsibility and It is here where Anne Frank’s government to help educate
leadership positions in our diary papers were left behind and promote the values of
communities to further a just, the day Karl Silberhauer of the tolerance and understanding
inclusive society. Sicherheitsdienst (German in the world.
Security Service) supervised the
Other independent but related • The Anne Frank Trust - UK is
arrest. Later, two family
Anne Frank institutions are a similar organization based
employees – Miep Gies and Bep
centred in several world capitals in London dedicated to the
Voskuijl – gathered up some 300
and accessible on-line. values of mutual respect,
pages of Anne Frank’s writings
compassion and social
Perhaps the most important of and gave them to Otto Frank
justice.
these is the Anne Frank House in after the war.
Amsterdam. Located adjacent to All these centres encourage
There are three other important
a canal, the building at 265 visitors, individual
venues, in addition to the Anne
Prinsengracht was the home of correspondence, and maintain
Frank Center, USA and the Anne
Anne Frank for the 25 months extensive on-line information
Frank House and museum in
she, her family and friends were and resources.
Amsterdam.
For further
inquiry:
Anne Frank Center, USA
www.annefrank.com
Anne Frank House
www.annefrank.org
Anne Frank Zentrum
www.annefrank.de
Anne Frank-Fonds
www.annefrank.ch
Anne Frank Trust-UK
www.annefrank.org.uk
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