Anne Frank––A History for Today project, developed as an educational initiative by the Anne Frank House, Amsterdam allies with Peaceworks as its official India partner. After having touched many schools across the country, the Anne Frank exhibition recently travelled to the Yellow Train School, Coimbatore. On the 9th of August, 2024, after a warm welcome…
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…
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…
For me, the most interesting aspect of ‘Anne Frank—A History for Today’, the international traveling exhibition, is the fact that it engages on multiple levels. There is of course—the visual aspect—photographs of Anne, her family, the very real and unimaginable suffering that countless people had to go through. Then there are the first person accounts.…
