This week, we commemorate what would have been Anne's 95th birthday

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June 12, 2024

Dear Friends,

Anne Frank would have been 95 years old on June 12. Help the Anne Frank Center USA to mark her birthday!

This week, we honored Anne by dedicating an Anne Frank Tree in White Plains, New York, the latest addition to our national living memorial to Anne Frank. We will conclude the week with a celebration of her life.
Dedication of Anne Frank Tree in White Plains, New York. June 11, 2024. Pictured are Fred and Tony Polak, the sons of AFC USA Founder Jack Polak.

In this time of propaganda and dehumanization, Anne Frank Center USA's programs spread Anne's love of learning and her enduring hope for humanity.

We provide transformative educational programs in communities where they are needed most! Every dollar donated brings Anne Frank's words to life for tens of thousands of individuals.

Please give today at annefrank.com/donate ([link removed]) !

Sincerely,

Jonathan L. Cohen

Lauren Bairnsfather, CEO

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Learn more about Anne Frank Center USA

About Anne Frank Center USA
The Anne Frank Center USA traces its roots to the efforts of Otto Frank in the 1950s to raise funds to support the restoration of Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. He established the Anne Frank Foundation in New York as a fundraising organization dedicated to this purpose. The Anne Frank Foundation evolved into the Anne Frank Center USA, securing official 501(c)(3) nonprofit status in New York in 1977. AFC USA, which is still based in New York, functions as a decentralized organization. This makes it possible for the organization to remain nimble and responsive in a rapidly changing world. Over the past year, programs of AFC USA have reached hundreds of thousands of students in twenty-two states and the District of Columbia.

About Anne Frank
Born on June 12, 1929, Anne Frank was a Jewish teenager from Frankfurt, Germany who was forced to go into hiding during the Holocaust. She and her family, along with four others, spent over two years during World War II hiding in an annex of rooms on Prinsengracht in Amsterdam, today known as the Anne Frank House. After being betrayed to the Nazis, Anne, her family, and the others living with them were arrested and deported to Nazi concentration camps. In March of 1945, seven months after she was arrested, Anne Frank died of typhus at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. She was fifteen years old.

About The Diary of a Young Girl
Since it was first published in 1947, Anne Frank's diary has become one of the most powerful memoirs of the Holocaust. Its message of courage and hope in the face of adversity has reached millions. The diary has been translated into more than 70 languages with over 30 million copies sold. Anne Frank's story is especially meaningful to young people today. For many she is their first, if not their only exposure to the history of the Holocaust.

Sapling Project History
The Sapling Project began in 2009 with the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam’s efforts to preserve the original chestnut tree by gathering and germinating chestnuts and donating the saplings to organizations dedicated to Anne Frank’s memory.

Despite efforts to strengthen the original chestnut tree, the aged, diseased tree toppled in a windstorm in 2010. It was one of the oldest chestnut trees in Amsterdam.

Over the last 10 years, Anne Frank Center USA has awarded saplings to sites across the United States, including the U.S. Capitol, the United Nations Headquarters, and others. Taken together, these trees form a living memorial with branches reaching from coast to coast.

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