EXHIBITS
Anne Frank: A History for Today
To enhance your experience of this moving historical account, Theatre Aquarius will transform the Ron and Donna Patterson Lobby with an exhibit by the Anne Frank Center in New York during the run of this production. Explore this educational and informative exhibit about Anne Frank’s life, World War II, and the Holocaust as an added value to your ticket or subscription.
The life history of Anne Frank and her family is the leading thread running through “Anne Frank: A History for Today.” The family’s story is juxtaposed against world events before, during and after the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party. The exhibit includes photographs of the Frank family and the other occupants of the Secret Annex and shows how people were persecuted by political decisions and by the actions of individuals. Implicit in the exhibit are the themes of scapegoating, bullying, anti-Semitism, racism, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. The exhibit introduces visitors to the events leading up to World War II, and the government directed killing of Jews, Gypsies, the disabled, Slavs and others. The exhibit depicts individuals who chose to join the Nazi party and become perpetrators, those who were bystanders, as well as those who were willing to resist the Nazi tyranny. Visitors are challenged to look for ways to resolve differences without violence and to learn about human rights laws and standards as defined by such documents as the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights and Convention on the Rights of Children. We encourage you to learn about current events and take an active role in your community and government. The recurrent nature of prejudice, discrimination, violence, and genocide means that each of us must work toward furthering a just, inclusive society.
“Anne Frank: A History for Today” was developed by the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam and is offered exclusively in North America by the New York based Anne Frank Centre USA, Inc.
Visit the Anne Frank Centre USA website at http://www.annefrank.com
Photo and artistic rendering courtesy of AFF/AFH – Basel/Amsterdam
(Anne Frank Fond – Basel / Anne Frank House – Amsterdam)
