New York (AP) – A Copying the full scale The secret supplement where Anne Frank His famous diary was written in New York City on Monday when the world was marked International Holocaust Memorial Day.
The exhibition at the center of the Jewish History in Manhattan represents the first time when Anxus has been fully re -created outside Amsterdam, where the place is the central part of the N -Frank House Museum.
But when the original Innix has been deliberately left empty, the reconstruction of New York shows five rooms as they may have seen while the Frank family and others remained hidden.
The vacancies are full of furniture and property, including the reconstruction of a written desk, where Frank wrote his diary.
Ronald Leopold, director of Ann Frank House, said that to tell Ann’s story in a new and eager way, especially for those who will not visit the Amsterdam Museum, which also has Frank’s original diary.
“We are very hopeful that we will be able to touch the hearts of the people here, because education is the focus of this exhibition,” Leopold said at the inauguration of Monday. “And education begins with sympathy – what happened here in Amsterdam during those years, what happened to Ann Frank.”
The Frank Family hid with other Jews in the Attari of the Patriark Otto Frank’s office in Amsterdam for two years when the Nazi German army occupied the Netherlands during World War II.
He was eventually discovered in 1944 and sent to detention camps, including Auschwitz-BerkinaoWhich was Free By Soviet soldiers Monday 80 years ago. Ann and his older sister Margate died in 1945 at the Bergen Billson concentration camp.
His father, Otto, was the only person with a Holocaust surviving supplement. After the war, he published the diary of his 15 -year -old daughter, which is considered to be the most important task of the 20th century. Benic Died in 1980 At the age of 91.
Hannah-Melina Elias, granddaughter of Buddy Elias, the cousin of Ann Frank, said she felt emotionally walking in the exhibition rooms.
“It is quite great and very interesting to see that a small place in which families have to stay and stay for more than two years,” said a 29 -year -old young man living in Switzerland.
His sister-in-law, Lab-Anuk Elias, hoped that the exhibition would encourage visitors to consider what it means that he would face discrimination or to become a minority today. That means.
“Unfortunately, history is repeating itself in different ways,” said a 27 -year -old Berlin resident. “We have to be very, very careful how to act and how to do things against it, so that never happens.”
New York Exhibition, which continues until April 30, covers more than 7,500 square feet (696 square meters) and includes more than 100 photos and other samples – according to personnel, many, many People were not publicly disclosed.
These items include Ann Frank’s first photo album and his handwritten poetry as well as a copy of his famous diary. It also has about 80 80 translated editions of her diary, and even the Oscar won for the 1959 film “The Diary of Ann Frank” in 1959.
This installation is presented in accordance with the date, in which the life of the Frank Family in Germany has been traced to the rise of the Nazi government, Amsterdam’s family flight and hiding and final arrest.
Henry Bourne, a junior of the Catholic High School of Manhattan, said it helps to learn about the story of the family, he helps to understand the breadth of Holocaust.
The 16 -year -old said, “He taught me a lot just because you see a story, walking these rooms and all beds and tables, just a person’s life.” “And millions of people were lost.”
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This story has been updated to fix the offspring’s name with Lab-Anuk Elias, not Lyu-Anuk Elias.
