Anne Frank exhibit opening in New York amid US debate over antisemitism
The first-ever full-scale replica of Anne Frank’s attic annex goes on show in New York next week, part of an ongoing effort to maintain awareness of – and combat – antisemitism in the midst of conflict in the Middle East and political tensions in the US.
Eighty years on from Frank’s death, aged 15, in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945, the exhibition at the Center for Jewish History in downtown Manhattan aims to introduce new audiences to one of the most famous victims of Adolf Hitler’s “final solution”.
It opens on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which this year commemorates the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, one of the largest extermination sites in occupied Europe, which Frank had passed through.
The exhibition in New York follows an exhibit last year of artefacts drawn from the 7 October 2023, Hamas-led attack on the Nova music festival and surrounding communities that precipitated a counter-invasion that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza, including many women and children, razed much of the territory and led some groups to accuse Israel of carrying out a genocide.
It includes more than 100 original artifacts related to the Frank family, including a Dutch version of the Monopoly board she played, and a 1947 letter from a New York publisher to her father, Otto Frank, declining to publish her diaries, The Diary of a Young Girl, that has sold more than 35m copies in 70 languages since publication that same year.
A reconstruction of Anne Frank’s room as part of an exhibition at the Center for Jewish History in New York opening on Monday, which is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Photograph: Ray van der Bas/Anne Frank House
© Photograph: Ray van der Bas/Anne Frank House
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