Anne Frank exhibit to close doors at KSU
Published on July 25, 2006 by The Sentinel
The 8000 words and 600 photographs used to commemorate the life of Anne Frank and her experience during the Holocaust will move from KSU in November to DeKalb County after three years.
The exhibit will permanently close at KSU and move to the old post office on Trinity Place in downtown Decatur in December.
“Anne Frank in the World: 1929-1945″ opened in Nov. 2003 with a ribbon cutting ceremony and the first guided tour given with Governor Sonny Perdue as guest.
So far in its time at KSU, over 80 thousand visitors have heard the stories of Anne Frank’s life starting in the 1920s when there was freedom in Germany, to hiding in a secret annex above her father’s business in Amsterdam and to her death in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at age 15.
The exhibit is currently planned to stay in DeKalb County for three years, but there has already been discussions about extending the stay. The county’s commissioners have provided $50,000 a year to maintain the exhibit in addition to $250,000 that will go towards set-up costs for the exhibit’s first year. Additional funds for the exhibit will be raised by former DeKalb County Chief Executive Officer Liane Levetan, a Holocaust survivor.
The exhibit was originally offered to DeKalb County before KSU. However, space was unavailable to accommodate the exhibit at the time.
“Parallel Journeys: World War II and the Holocaust Through the Eyes of Teenagers,” will open this fall at the KSU Center once the Anne Frank exhibit leaves. Until then, the exhibit is free of charge to the general public.
The last tour of the Anne Frank Exhibit will be held October 30. Students who have yet to visit the exhibit are encouraged to do so now. The exhibit is located in the KSU Center off of Busbee drive. For more information visit the Anne Frank Exhibit’s website at kennesaw.edu/annefrank or call 770-420-4432.
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