Anne Frank Exhibit Scheduled To Leave Decatur at End of Year
Decatur Metro | August 31, 2009 | 12:18 pmThis morning’s AJC front page story about the Anne Frank exhibit moving from the Old Courthouse in downtown Decatur to a strip mall in Sandy Springs in December, reminded me that I had looked into this story a few months back, after Susan sent in a note pointing to another article in the Sandy Springs Reporter.
At the time, I sent an email to the Executive Director of the DeKalb History Center, Melissa Fogerty, to find confirm the news and learn of the DHC’s plans to fill the gap left by the Frank exhibit. This was her response…
The Anne Frank is a moving, or temporary, exhibit and the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust’s contract with DeKalb County is for three years (ending this year). Before locating here, the exhibit was in Kennesaw for three years. DHC is developing new exhibits to cover the history of DeKalb County, and temporary exhibits on special topics and areas in the county.
This is a valuable and moving exhibit. I recommend it for children at the 4th-5th grade level and up, especially if they have read The Diary of Anne Frank and as long as the Holocaust has been explained to them beforehand. Children especially enjoy the dollhouse view of the Annex where the Franks and friends hid and lived. It evokes the ordinary humanity of the situation for them.