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The Anne Frank Zentrum (Anne Frank Centre), located in Berlin, [1] is a history museum dedicated to Anne Frank and her diary. It contains exhibitions and an array of educational programs. [2] The centre is committed to working against anti-Semitism, prejudice, and any kind of discrimination against people. [3]
The Anne Frank Zentrum in Berlin was founded in 1994 as a response to the international travelling exhibition "The world of Anne Frank. 1929-1945". This exhibition was shown in six boroughs of the city and marked the 50th anniversary of the liberation from Nazism. To support the coordination of the exhibition and the extensive accompanying programme a Society of Friends was founded.
From this organisation, the Anne Frank Zentrum in Berlin was founded, supported by the existing Anne Frank Centres in Great Britain, acting as guides.
Through a cooperation agreement with the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, the Anne Frank Zentrum was opened on 12 June 1998. [4] Since September 2002, the Anne Frank Zentrum has been based next to the Hackesche Höfe at 39 Rosenthaler Strasse in Berlin.
On 4 November 2006 a new permanent exhibition "Anne Frank. Here & Now" opened, telling the personal life story of Anne Frank and how her tale connects to the world she lived in. The exhibition incorporates modern reflections from Berlin's young people.
Anne Frank Zentrum also invests in touring exhibitions to encourage the examination of history but also of topics such as democracy and human rights on a more national and global level. The centre takes an active role against right wing extremism in Germany.
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The Humboldt University of Berlin is a public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany.
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Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank was a German-born Jewish girl who kept a diary documenting her life in hiding amid Nazi persecution during the German occupation of the Netherlands. A celebrated diarist, Frank described everyday life from her family's hiding place in an Amsterdam attic. She gained fame posthumously and became one of the most-discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust with the 1947 publication of The Diary of a Young Girl, which documents her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944. It is one of the world's best-known books and has been the basis for several plays and films.
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The Soviet Paradise was the name of an exhibition and a propaganda film created by the Department of Film of the propaganda organisation (Reichspropagandaleitung) of the German Nazi Party (NSDAP), and was displayed in the larger cities of the Reich and occupied countries: Vienna, Prague, Berlin and others. Its goal was to show "poverty, misery, depravity and need" of the nations in the Soviet Union under "Jewish Bolshevist" rule and thus to justify the war against the Soviet Union. The accompanying guide for the exhibition noted, "The present Soviet state is nothing other than the realization of that Jewish invention".
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