Museumsportal Berlin

The exhibition is divided into three parts. In the first section, Anne Frank’s life story is told chronologically using artefacts, archive photos and photos from the Frank family albums. This personal story is depicted against the background of Nazism.

In the second part, five young people from Berlin, filmed in specially designed spaces, give their opinions on themes that play an important role in Anne Frank’s diary: Identity, Dreams of the Future, Exclusion and War. Another central function of this area is to create the opportunity to explore various aspects of the exhibition in more depth with school groups.
The third part of the exhibition attempts to answer the question of why the diary of Anne Frank invokes such positive reactions: why has her diary become so famous? A number of possible explanations are explored: it is positive, it is well written, it is an intimate document of adolescence and that it breaks off suddenly and tragically.

»This new exhibition is extremely important for the Anne Frank Zentrum«, says the Centre’s director, Thomas Heppener. »Anne Frank finally has a permanent location in the German capital. In years to come the exhibition will form the basis of our educational activities, alongside the travelling exhibition that we have been organising in Germany for years. The new exhibition gives us many opportunities for intensive work with school groups. What’s more, we expect it to attract many more tourists to our Centre«.