The Activity Report of the Anne Frank House with an overview of 2025.
Anne Frank’s story remains relevant
Wars, rising hatred against Jews, against Muslims, against people who are perceived as “different,” democratic values under pressure, and elected representatives embracing autocratic ideas—these issues continue to dominate the daily news and public debate. Especially in times like these, Anne Frank’s story remains profoundly relevant. In her diary, Anne makes it possible to understand the human consequences of discrimination, exclusion, and persecution. At the same time, she shows that hope, humanity, and ideals can endure even under the most difficult circumstances.
In 2025, our museum and educational mission remained at the heart of everything we do. We focussed on building bridges between people from different backgrounds and beliefs. We welcomed visitors from around the world to the Anne Frank House and developed programs and educational resources that help young people understand the consequences of antisemitism, racism, and discrimination, as well as the importance of freedom, equal rights, and democracy. Our capacity and social impact continued to grow through the expansion of our educational projects, training programs, and learning materials.
On January 27, 2025, we opened a major museum exhibition in New York—Anne Frank The Exhibition—featuring more than 100 original collection items and a full-scale, fully furnished reconstruction of the Annex, the former hiding place of the Frank family, the Van Pels family, and Fritz Pfeffer. Over the course of twelve months, the exhibition attracts 321,874 visitors, who rate it an outstanding 9.6 out of 10. The exhibition is now on display in Chicago.
Our activities are only possible thanks to the dedication of our staff, volunteers, partners, and donors. Their support enables us to continue our educational mission and engage new generations with Anne Frank’s life story and diary.
Education Now!
With our educational programs and products, we aim to encourage young people to reflect on past and present social developments related to antisemitism, racism, discrimination, freedom, equal rights, and democracy. Anne Frank’s life story is always the foundation. Through strong networks and partnerships, we scale up our efforts in sports, schools, on the streets, and across social media, increasing the impact of our educational activities.
In line with our focus on the democratic constitutional state, we developed new educational materials in 2025: Democracy Is Everywhere, Fundamental Rights, The Scapegoating Mechanism, An Ordinary Day, and Democracy or Dictatorship. These materials are suitable for primary education through to vocational education and encourage students to reflect on their position in a democratic society, the value of the democratic rule of law, and its vulnerability.
In workshops, we discussed with teachers how to respond to antisemitism and which teaching materials are effective in countering it. We worked with the organisation Fawaka and trained their trainers. We also developed new teaching materials on polarisation related to the war between Israel and Hamas, and the increase in antisemitism since then. During the lesson Opposites?, young people explored different bridge builders who seek to connect with one another.
In 2025, we reviewed and updated our educational offer on the Holocaust, using the findings from the needs assessment among teachers. We updated teaching methods, created new educational materials on Anne Frank and the anti-Jewish measures, and renewed the Teaching about the Holocaust training by adding modules on antisemitism, perpetration, and the use of film.
The year in focus
‘How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world!’
