Season's Greetings from Anne Frank Center, USA

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Dear Friends,

As we celebrate the holidays this week, we are grateful for the generosity of our community of supporters.

While hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam, the residents of the Secret Annex celebrated Saint Nicholas Day, Christmas, and Hanukkah by writing poetry and giving special gifts. As was often the case, their helpers played an important role. On December 24, 1943, 79 years ago today, Anne wrote:


For Christmas, we’re getting extra cooking oil, candy, and molasses. For Hanukkah, Mr. Pfeffer gave Mrs. van Pels and Mother a beautiful cake, which he’d asked Miep to bake… I also gave a Christmas present to Miep and Bep. For a whole month I’ve saved up the sugar I put on my hot cereal, and Mr. Kleiman has used it to have fondant made.


We are in awe of Miep, Bep, and Mr. Kleiman, who preserved the kindness and beauty of the holidays in impossible circumstances.

The example set by the helpers inspires the programs of the Anne Frank Center USA year-round. Please join us in bringing the arts into schools and celebrating free expression, kindness, and beauty. 100% of your tax-deductible gifts bring visual and performing artists into schools across the United States.

Happy holidays!

Sincerely,

Lauren Bairnsfather, CEO

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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