Five years since launching the project in India and 9 cities later, we find ourselves in Ludhiana with the Anne Frank exhibition and all its related education activities. At 4 degrees Celsius it was freezing cold for somebody used to Calcutta winter. But the famous Punjabi warmth and hospitality buffered the bitter cold like…
The peer guide training and set up of the ‘Anne Frank-A History for Today’ traveling exhibition at Delhi Public School, Nashik was on 17 December 2017. We were greeted bright and early by a group of 15 students from class 8. We started with a few warm up exercises, followed by zip, zap, boing: a…
It is always interesting meeting educators from different schools and across subjects and it becomes even more so when one is meeting them to talk about human rights and the Anne Frank story. The teacher-training workshop on the Peaceworks Human Rights Defenders Module was held for 20 educators from the Delhi-NCR region on Tuesday, 28…
Anne Frank—A History for Today, a travelling exhibition for schools was set up at the Shiv Nadar School, Noida on Monday 27 November 2017. We began the peer guide training with a brief round of introductions followed by a discussion on Anne Frank, the Diary and the Holocaust. Most of the students—from grades 8 and…
Bright and early on a Sunday morning, eighteen students of Delhi Public School were bustling about their multipurpose hall, unpacking trunks, fishing out dismantled structures and carefully unrolling panels all over the floor. In a matter of hours, these students, from classes X and XI and XII, inspected, prepared and set up an entire exhibition…
