The exhibition premiered on January 27, 2025, in New York City. Over the course of twelve months, it attracted 321,874 visitors, who rated the exhibition 9.6. The exhibition’s unique and powerful character is a key reason for taking it on tour across the United States.
Anne Frank's life
The exhibition highlights Anne Frank’s life (1929–1945) in the context of the Second World War and the persecution of the Jews: her early years in Frankfurt am Main, the rise of the Nazi regime, the move to Amsterdam, and the period in hiding in the Annex, leading up to her arrest and deportation to the concentration camps Westerbork and Auschwitz-Birkenau, and her untimely death in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The exhibition also explores Anne Frank’s work and global significance, a cause to which her father was deeply committed. Otto Frank was the only one of the eight people in hiding in the Annex to survive the war. After returning from Auschwitz, he became the driving force behind the publication of his daughter’s diary and the dissemination of her life story worldwide.
Reconstruction of the Annex
Anne Frank The Exhibition features an unique, life-size reconstruction of the Annex, faithfully recreated and furnished in the style of the hiding period. The exhibition also includes more than 130 original collection items from the Anne Frank House collection. Among the objects on display are Anne Frank’s first photo album; her typed and handwritten invitation to her friend Jacqueline van Maarsen for a film screening at her home (in 1942, anti-Jewish measures prohibited Jews from going to the cinema); handwritten verses by Anne and her sister Margot in friends’ poetry albums; and Aus Grimms Märchen: 20 der schönsten Märchen der Brüder Grimm, a German fairy-tale book that belonged to Anne and Margot.
In addition to the many original objects, visitors can view an accurate replica of Anne Frank’s first red-checkered diary. The original red-checkered diary and the subsequent volumes are on display at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam.
Moral Responsibility
“Anne Frank The Exhibition makes you think,” says Ronald Leopold, Executive Director of the Anne Frank House.