{"id":151126,"date":"2026-03-03T15:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/151126\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T15:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:56:08","slug":"anne-frank-the-exhibition-makes-midwest-debut-at-griffin-museum-of-science-industry-the-bronx-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/151126\/","title":{"rendered":"Anne Frank The Exhibition Makes Midwest Debut At Griffin Museum Of Science & Industry | The Bronx Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"

Griffin Museum of Science & Industry will be the Midwest host of Anne Frank The Exhibition<\/a>. A presentation of the Anne Frank House<\/a>, the exhibition features a pioneering experience outside of Amsterdam to immerse visitors in a full-scale, fully furnished recreation of the Annex rooms where Anne Frank, her parents and sister and four other Jewish refugees spent two years hiding to evade Nazi capture. Anne Frank The Exhibition opens May 1, 2026.<\/p>\n

Featured image caption: A mural of Anne Frank at the NDSM wharf in Amsterdam, the Netherlands<\/p>\n

\u201cAnne Frank\u2019s story is a powerful reminder of what happens when fear and hatred are allowed to take root,\u201d said Dr. Chevy Humphrey, Griffin Museum of Science and Industry President and CEO. \u201cAt the same time, it reveals the quiet but enduring strength of curiosity, creativity and resilience, values that sit at the heart of our mission. We hope this exhibition offers meaningful moments of reflection for our guests, particularly young people, and encourages them to think critically about their role in the world they are inheriting.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnne Frank The Exhibition is a call to conscience, said Ronald Leopold, Executive Director of the Anne Frank House. \u201cBy stepping into the world that confined Anne and her family, visitors are invited to confront the enduring realities of antisemitism, racism and hatred \u2014 and to recognize that remembrance is not passive, but a moral act that demands empathy, vigilance and courage. Griffin Museum of Science and Industry, founded through Julius Rosenwald\u2019s conviction that knowledge must belong to everyone, embodies this same spirit of moral responsibility. Just as Rosenwald believed education is humanity\u2019s greatest equalizer, this exhibition transforms history into living dialogue, ensuring that learning, understanding and compassion are never the privilege of a few, but the right of all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anne Frank The Exhibition immerses visitors in the context that shaped Anne\u2019s life, from her early years in Frankfurt through the rise of the Nazi regime. It traces her family\u2019s phased move to Amsterdam in the early 1930s, where Anne lived for ten years until her arrest in 1944. Visitors also follow her deportation to Westerbork, a large transit camp in the Netherlands, then to Auschwitz-Birkenau, a concentration camp and killing center in Nazi-occupied Poland, and eventually to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp<\/a> in Germany, where she died at the age of 15.<\/p>\n

In addition to the recreated Annex, Anne Frank The Exhibition provides an opportunity to learn about Anne Frank not as a victim but through the multifaceted lens of her life \u2014 as a girl, a writer and a symbol of resilience and strength. This is a story inspired by one of the most translated books in the world.<\/p>\n

The Chicago exhibition includes more than 130 original artifacts from the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam \u2014 many have never been seen before in public. Some of those artifacts include letters from Anne Frank, Margot Frank, Otto Frank and Fritz Pfeffer; a \u201cList of Returned Jews Arriving at Amsterdam Central Station\u201d in 1945; Anne Frank\u2019s first photo album (1929-1942); handwritten verses by Anne Frank and Margot Frank in their friends\u2019 poetry albums; and a German fairytale book that belonged to Margot Frank and Anne Frank (1925).<\/p>\n

Celebrated for its unprecedented intimacy and depth, Anne Frank The Exhibition originally premiered in New York City on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.<\/p>\n

Griffin MSI will offer this exhibition for free to all field trip groups, alongside the Museum\u2019s ongoing policy of free General Admission to Illinois field trip groups, to make this important educational experience available to more people. All children in these groups also will receive a journal to write in to reflect on Anne\u2019s words and consider the power of their own.<\/p>\n

The exhibition is supported by age-appropriate educational resources and an antisemitism curriculum developed by the Anne Frank House and the Anne Frank Center at the University of South Carolina. These materials help students understand the history and ongoing reality of antisemitism and hatred while fostering critical thinking, empathy and civic responsibility through meaningful classroom conversations. Educators can access the curriculum \u2014 aligned with standards adopted by 39 states \u2014 through the exhibition website.<\/p>\n

The exhibition is designed for children (ages 10 and older) and adults. All tickets include the exhibition audio guide in English and Spanish.<\/p>\n

Leading the creative vision for the expanded exhibition in Chicago is Tom Brink, Head of Collections & Presentations at the Anne Frank House and curator of Anne Frank The Exhibition. Michael S. Glickman, CEO of jMUSE, advised the Anne Frank House, with exhibition design by Eric Goossens Ontwerpt. Dr. Doyle Stevick, Executive Director of The Anne Frank Center at the University of South Carolina \u2014 the Anne Frank House\u2019s official U.S. partner \u2014 is the educational advisor.<\/p>\n

The exhibition is presented at Griffin MSI with support from Lead Benefactor Tony and Laura Davis, Presenting Benefactor Crown Family Philanthropies, Premier Sponsors Zell Family, Patron Sponsors Cari and Michael J. Sacks and GCM Grosvenor, the Estate of Judith Marx Golub, Jewish United Fund, Michael and Tanya Polsky and John and Jacolyn Bucksbaum Family Foundation, with supporting gifts from Neil Book, Chicago Bulls Charities and Rich and Vanessa Copans.<\/p>\n

The exhibition was originally developed \u2014 and will travel nationally \u2014 through the leadership and support of Leon Levy Foundation, David Berg Foundation, Bank of America, Rebecca and Jared Cohen, Gray Foundation, Stacey and Eric Mindich, The Fuhrman Family Foundation, The Koum Family Foundation, Merryl and James Tisch and UJA-Federation of New York. Major support for the exhibition was also provided by Debbie and Mark Attanasio, Tanya and Ryan Baker, Einstein Astrof Foundation, Jesselson Foundation, Pershing Square Philanthropies, Sara Naison-Tarajano, The Barbra Streisand Foundation, The Krupp Foundation and Anonymous. Pro bono legal services provided by Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.<\/p>\n

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About Kenneth C. Griffin Museum of Science & Industry<\/p>\n

Kenneth C. Griffin Museum of Science & Industry (Griffin MSI) offers world-class and uniquely interactive experiences that support the Museum\u2019s mission: to inspire the inventive genius in everyone. As one of the largest science museums in the world featuring award-winning exhibits and hands-on activities, a visit to Griffin MSI is guaranteed to connect fun and learning. Griffin MSI is committed to offering comprehensive educational programs \u00adfor students, administrators, teachers and families that make a difference in local communities and contribute to Griffin MSI\u2019s goal to transform and illuminate STE(A)M (science, technology, engineering, art and math) pathways for people of all ages. The Museum is grateful for the support of generous donors and guests who make its work possible. Griffin MSI is also supported in part by the people of Chicago through the Chicago Park District. For more information, please visit griffinmsi.org<\/a> or call 773-684-1414<\/a>.<\/p>\n

About the Anne Frank House<\/p>\n

The Anne Frank House was established in 1957 in cooperation with Otto Frank, Anne Frank\u2019s father, as an independent nonprofit organization entrusted with the preservation of the Annex where Anne Frank and her family went into hiding in 1942 during the Second World War. For nearly seven decades, the Anne Frank House has served as a place of memory and a place of learning. Committed to bringing Anne\u2019s life story to world audiences, the Anne Frank House<\/a> has emerged as a primary resource for teaching and learning about the Holocaust. Through Anne\u2019s legacy the Anne Frank House empowers people of all ages \u2014 and especially young people \u2014 to reflect on the dangers of antisemitism, racism, and discrimination and the importance of freedom, equal rights, and democracy.<\/p>\n

About the Annex<\/p>\n

In July 1942, Anne Frank (13), her parents, Otto and Edith Frank, and her sister, Margo Frank (16), went into hiding in the Annex at the back of her father\u2019s company. The Van Pels family (Hermann, Auguste, and their 15-year-old son, Peter) followed the next week. Four months later, they were joined by Fritz Pfeffer. All of them were Jews daring to escape certain death at the hands of the Nazis amid the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II. Unable to go to school, largely cut off from the rest of the world, and trapped in close quarters with others while a war raged outside, Anne poured herself into her diary. The people in hiding in the Annex were discovered and arrested in 1944, and subsequently sent to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp. Anne and her sister Margot were then sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they both died of typhus in February 1945. Anne was 15. Margot was 18 or 19. Otto Frank was the only person from the Annex to survive the Holocaust.<\/p>\n

About the Diary<\/p>\n

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, more commonly known as\u00a0The Diary of Anne Frank, is one of the most translated books in the world. Transformed multiple times for stage and screen, the published book\u2019s source is the personal diary that Anne Frank kept in multiple notebooks during the two-year period of hiding with her family in rooms located in the back house of her father\u2019s company in Amsterdam. Soon after Anne and the others were arrested in 1944, Miep Gies, one of the people who risked their lives to help them in hiding, returned to the Annex and found their belongings ransacked. Miep was relieved to find Anne\u2019s diary pages, knowing how important her writings were to her, and saved them for her return. Otto was the only person from the Annex to survive the Holocaust. When Miep first gave him his daughter\u2019s diary, he could not bring himself to read it. Soon, he did and he could not stop, sharing it with relatives and friends who encouraged him to publish what they considered \u201can important human document.\u201d Upon its publication, Otto Frank wrote: \u201cHow proud Anne would have been if she had lived to see this. After all, on 29 March 1944, she wrote: \u2018Imagine how interesting it would be if I published a novel about the Secret Annex.’\u201d<\/p>\n

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