A full-scale replica of Anne Frank’s hidden outhouse is heading to New York for an exhibition

It opens on January 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

While the faithfully recreated room extension will be the centerpiece of the exhibition, it will also tell the story of Anne’s family from their time in Germany, their move to the Netherlands and the decision to go into hiding, to their discovery by the Nazis, deportation and deportation trace. Anne’s death and her father’s postwar decision to publish her diary.

“What we want to achieve with this exhibition is for people, our visitors, to learn about Anne, not just as a victim, but through the layered lens of a life, as a teenage girl, as a writer, as a symbol of resilience and resilience Strength. We hope they reflect on the context that has shaped their lives.”

The exhibition comes at a time of increasing anti-Semitism and anger over the devastating war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, which has now spread to the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon following Hamas’ deadly attacks in southern Israel on October 7, 2023 .

“With fewer and fewer survivors in our communities, with devastating anti-Semitism and other forms of group hatred on the rise in the United States and around the world, we believe that … our responsibility as the Anne Frank House has never been greater Leopold said: “And this exhibition is partly a response to the responsibility of educating people to stand against anti-Semitism and group hatred.”

Anne’s diary will not take part in the transatlantic voyage.

“Unfortunately we cannot travel with the diary, writings, notebooks and loose papers that Anne wrote. “They are too fragile, too vulnerable to travel,” Leopold said.

The 125 exhibits traveling from Amsterdam for the New York exhibition include photos, albums, artifacts such as one of the yellow stars that Jews were forced to wear in the occupied Netherlands, as well as the Best Supporting Actress Oscar that Shelley Winters won for her Role in George Stevens’ 1959 film The Diary of Anne Frank.