The Anne Frank Exhibition @ Whangarei Museum

The Anne Frank Travelling Exhibition from the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam is coming to Whangarei Museum after its national opening at Te Papa in Wellington.

Anne Frank was one of more than one million Jewish children who died in the Holocaust.

Her family fled from Germany to Amsterdam after the Nazis seized power in 1933.  In 1942, with the Netherlands under Nazi occupation, the Germans and their Dutch collaborators began to round up Jews throughout the country.  Anne and her family went - with the help of four people who worked for Otto Frank – into hiding in a secret annex to the rear of Otto Frank’s factory. It would eventually also hide four other Jews for two years. They lived in this secret hiding place where Anne wrote the diary that has since been translated into 70 languages and has become one of the world's most widely read books.

Every year more than a million visitors see the cramped rooms in a small Amsterdam house where Anne and her family hid for so long.  The exhibition, "A History for Today", has been shown in more than 150 cities around the world and is designed for those who aren't able to visit Anne Frank House.

Using over 200 personal Frank family photographs, and excerpts from Anne's famous diary, it tells the Anne Frank story against the backdrop of a general history of World War II and the Holocaust.

www.annefrankexhibition.co.nz