Ronald Leopold, executive director of the Anne Frank House, in...

Ronald Leopold, executive director of the Anne Frank House, in front of the passage to the secret annex in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. A full-scale replica of the annex goes on display in January at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File) Credit: AP/Peter Dejong

A groundbreaking exhibition coming to New York City in January includes a full-scale replica of the annex rooms where Anne Frank and her family hid for two years before their capture by the Nazis. 

Titled "Anne Frank, The Exhibition," the immersive experience, undertaken in conjunction with the Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, opens Jan. 27 at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan. The date marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which in 2025 will commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, where more than 1.1 million men, women and children were killed in the Holocaust.

"Anne Frank's words resonate and inspire today, a voice we carry to all corners of the world, nearly eight decades later," said Ronald Leopold, the executive director of the Anne Frank House, in a statement Wednesday.

"As a custodian of Anne's legacy," Leopold said, "we have an obligation to help world audiences understand the historical roots and evolution of antisemitism, including how it fueled Nazi ideology that led to the Holocaust."

Gavriel Rosenfeld, president of the Center for Jewish History, said in a statement: "As we approach the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in January, Anne Frank's story becomes more urgent than ever. In a time of rising antisemitism, her diary serves as both a warning and a call to action, reminding us of the devastating impact of hatred.

The story of Anne Frank, who died of typhus at age 15 while a prisoner at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany just weeks before its liberation, gained worldwide attention with the postwar publication of her diaries, first in Dutch under the title "Het Achterhuis — The Secret Annex, Diary Notes 14 June 1942-1 August 1944."

The book has since been translated into 70 languages, selling more than 35 million copies, as "The Diary of a Young Girl."

Most know it simply as "The Diary of Anne Frank."

That diary chronicles the experiences and observations of young Anne from the time she, her sister, Margot, parents, Otto and Edith, Otto's business partner, Hermann van Pels, his wife, Auguste, their son, Peter, and later a dentist friend of their helper were forced into hiding above the business Otto Frank ran in Amsterdam.

As Jews, the families were attempting to avoid Nazi persecution and managed to stay secreted away in the annex, concealed behind a movable bookcase, until being discovered and hauled off to concentration camps by German authorities in August 1944.

Of the eight who went into hiding in that annex, only Otto Frank survived the war. He later agreed to publish the diaries, which had been saved by the woman who'd hidden them, Miep Gies.

The exhibition will occupy more than 7,500 square feet of gallery space and includes not only a full-scale annex replica, but features more than 100 original collection items — among them, Anne's first photo album and handwritten notes and poetry verses.

The exhibition will offer visitors "an opportunity to learn about Anne Frank not as a victim but through the multifaceted lens of her life — as a girl, a writer, and a symbol of resilience and strength."

It is scheduled to run until April 30 and is designed for adults and for children age 10 and older. General admission tickets include an audio guide. For more information, visit AnneFrankExhibit.org

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