29.2.2012

Anne Frank – A History For Today 

Photo: Anne Frank House.

Exhibition in the entrance hall of the Turku Main Library  March 5th–23rd 2012.  Linnankatu 2
 

The international travelling exhibition Anne Frank – A History for Today places the story of Anne Frank against the backdrop of the Second World War and the Holocaust.

The heart of the exhibition consists of quotations from Anne Frank’s diary and the Frank family’s photographs. This is accompanied by other personal narratives about the consequences of discrimination and persecution. One of the stories depicted is that of the Finnish-Jewish Hanna Eckert, who survived the Holocaust.

Additional panels address the theme Discrimination & Finland nowadays.

The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam is co-ordinating this project in cooperation with the Helsinki City Library, the University of Helsinki, the Peace Education Institute and the Jewish Community in Finland. A group of Finnish youngsters followed a two-day training and will guide their peers through the exhibition. In Finland the exhibition will be shown in ten localities.

Additional information:

Gunnar Högnäs