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Exhibit includes parts of Anne Frank's diary, her family's collection
Amanda Junk
Section: FEATURES
Originally published: 10/25/07 at 11:15 PM EST
Last update: 10/25/07 at 11:14 PM EST
Originally published: 10/25/07 at 11:15 PM EST
Last update: 10/25/07 at 11:14 PM EST
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Passages from Anne Frank's diary as well as from her family's personal collection will complement other haunting Holocaust relics and testimony from Holocaust survivors, in an exhibit opening Saturday at Minnetrista.
"Anne Frank: A History for Today" will be on display Saturday until Jan. 20. The exhibit will correspond with "B'ruchim Habaim: Midwestern Sanctuary" on display in the Indiana Room in Minnetrista's lobby.
Visitors will walk away with a more in-depth understanding of the Holocaust but should come with a little background of Frank's story because of its emotional intensity, Minnetrista marketing manager Amanda Hicks said.
A photographic essay by former Muncie resident Elizabeth Leeor is a Minnetrista original and depicts the Jewish temples of East Central Indiana.
"[The exhibit] is very thought-provoking and emotional," she said.
Anne Frank was 15 years old when she died of typhus at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945, nine months after she and her family were arrested by Nazi soldiers in the Netherlands.
Frank's diary, which chronicles her experiences and suffering up until her final moments, was saved during the war by one of the family's helpers, Miep Gies, and was first published in 1947, according to the Anne Frank Center, USA.
"It was such a chance that her diary was preserved and returned to her father," English professor Frank Felsenstein said.
Her diary has been translated into 67 languages and is one of the most widely read books in the world.
Felsenstein has taught "Remembering the Holocaust," an honors colloquium, three times since his tenure began at Ball State University. It includes Frank's diaries in his course syllabus. He plans to teach the course again in the spring, he said.
In some ways, he said, his family's background is not much different than that of the Frank family: Felsenstein's mother grew up in Frankfurt, Germany and studied medicine at the university. She was one of first German-Jews to be able to escape in 1933 to England.
"Anne Frank: A History for Today" will be on display Saturday until Jan. 20. The exhibit will correspond with "B'ruchim Habaim: Midwestern Sanctuary" on display in the Indiana Room in Minnetrista's lobby.
Visitors will walk away with a more in-depth understanding of the Holocaust but should come with a little background of Frank's story because of its emotional intensity, Minnetrista marketing manager Amanda Hicks said.
A photographic essay by former Muncie resident Elizabeth Leeor is a Minnetrista original and depicts the Jewish temples of East Central Indiana.
"[The exhibit] is very thought-provoking and emotional," she said.
Anne Frank was 15 years old when she died of typhus at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945, nine months after she and her family were arrested by Nazi soldiers in the Netherlands.
Frank's diary, which chronicles her experiences and suffering up until her final moments, was saved during the war by one of the family's helpers, Miep Gies, and was first published in 1947, according to the Anne Frank Center, USA.
"It was such a chance that her diary was preserved and returned to her father," English professor Frank Felsenstein said.
Her diary has been translated into 67 languages and is one of the most widely read books in the world.
Felsenstein has taught "Remembering the Holocaust," an honors colloquium, three times since his tenure began at Ball State University. It includes Frank's diaries in his course syllabus. He plans to teach the course again in the spring, he said.
In some ways, he said, his family's background is not much different than that of the Frank family: Felsenstein's mother grew up in Frankfurt, Germany and studied medicine at the university. She was one of first German-Jews to be able to escape in 1933 to England.
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