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Dear Friends,

Just this month, we have been approached by a number of schools that would like to host our interactive performances, but their schools’ budgets prohibit it. Your donations make it possible for all schools, regardless of income level, to participate in our programs!

The Anne Frank Center USA's interactive theater performances bring historic characters to life for school audiences. Conversations with Anne and Letters from Anne and Martin draw from primary source material (Diary of a Young Girl and Letter from a Birmingham Jail) to increase student engagement with luminaries and events from the past.

Conversations with Anne ([link removed]) , is our signature one-act solo show that brings excerpts of Anne's diary to life. It is ideal for students and family audiences and provides a uniquely personal glimpse into Anne’s time in hiding. After the performance, the actor playing Anne answers questions from the audience in character. This serves as a great introduction to students who are just getting acquainted with Anne and her diary, 4th grade and up.

Letters from Anne and Martin ([link removed]) , is our two person show that highlights the parallels between Anne’s thoughts within her diary and the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his "Letter from Birmingham Jail." After the performance, the actors and an educator from the Anne Frank Center engage with students on how we can learn from their example to combat intolerance today. It serves as a great teaching tool for not only WWII and the Holocaust but also for the Civil Rights Movement, 6th grade and up.

The performances, including the Q&A portion of the event, last a total of 60 minutes and can be delivered virtually.

100% of your end of year gift brings our student-facing, community building programs directly to schools.

Please make your tax-deductible contribution before the end of the year.
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With warm wishes for 2025,

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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