Anne Frank Theater Project
The Holocaust Awareness Museum is excited to announce the acquisition of the Anne Frank Theater Project. Providing high quality educational theater since 1998, the Anne Frank Theater Project consists of a 45-minute adaptation of the Broadway play The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett staged by 6 professional actors. The play vividly portrays how ordinary people were affected by the Nazi’s Final Solution plan.
In addition, we also offer a production of Lida Stein and the Righteous Gentile, a play focusing on how Jewish and non-Jewish teenagers coped with the extraordinary social and political upheaval of the Nazi era in Germany when the Nuremberg Laws, restricting and isolating Jews, were enacted.
Following each performance, a dialogue with the audience is facilitated by a Project member, focusing on tolerance and diversity, bullying, consequence, and cultural competence. This format makes it ideal for school assemblies.
The programs are appropriate for audiences up to about 200 ranging from 6th grade students to senior citizens. They are intended for use in public and private schools, youth groups, and religious schools of all denominations. The performances are curriculum appropriate for students learning about the Holocaust and World War II, those reading novels from or about that era, and for teaching about diversity and prejudice.
The goal is to provide thought-provoking theater that educates the audience about prejudice, intolerance, and bigotry, while also heightening awareness that moral courage can move one to action and assist in improving the lives of others. These performances, with guided facilitated discussion, use the lessons of the Holocaust as a background to discuss current issues and make the Holocaust relevant to the world today.
Since 1998, the Anne Frank Theater Project has performed for more than 19,000 students at more than 70 schools and organizations, including many of the schools and organizations at which our survivors have presented.
Contact us for more information about this program and to schedule a performance.
