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“Anne Frank: A History for Today” will be displayed at the Georgetown Public Library from March 2 to May 4.
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A Courage Reborn
Congregation Havurah Shalom brings the story
of Anne Frank to Georgetown
By Maggi Jones
S
ixty-seven years after the pub-
lishing of one of the best-known
books in history, the story of Anne
Frank and the Holocaust will come to
Georgetown, Texas, after months of
planning and organizing—thanks to
the Congregation Havurah Shalom in
Sun City Texas.
With the help of the Georgetown Public
Library, financial sponsors, and vol-
unteers, the “Anne Frank: A History
for Today” traveling exhibit will make
Georgetown its home from March 2 to
May 4, 2014. The exhibit was developed
by the Anne Frank House and is spon-
sored in North America by The Anne
Frank Center USA, which was founded
in 1977 by Anne’s father Otto, who was
the only member of the Frank family to
survive the Holocaust.
This is the second educational exhibit
hosted by the Library and organized by
the Congregation Havurah Shalom—the
first was in 2010. The inaugural exhibit
was a historic account of the Holocaust
that was displayed for four weeks and
had more than 3,000 visitors with over
200 docent-led tours of students and
other groups. Because of the exhibit’s
popularity, Sun City Texas resident and
current President of the Congregation
Havurah Shalom, Lenora Hausman,
approached the Director of the Library,
Eric Lashley, in hopes of bringing a simi-
lar exhibit (though this time with a more
personal touch).
TELLING ANNE’S STORY
Anne Frank, a German Jewish teenager,
and her family are the centerpieces of the
exhibit, which chronicles Anne’s birth in
1929 through her death at age 15 in the
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in
March 1945.
The Diary of Anne Frank
was published in 1947 with international
renown, and continues to be an inspira-
tion, especially to young people.
The exhibit will introduce visitors to the
history of World Wars I and II, with 11
panels in English and Spanish. The pan-
els will incorporate juxtaposing photo-
graphs of the Frank family with images
of historical events of the time.
Linda Schaeffer, co-chair of the exhibit
with Marian Kobrin, hopes the exhibit
