Exhibition A History For Today To Be Opened On April 8

ISTANBUL (A.A) - 07.04.2002 - The exhibition of ''A History for Today'' will be opened at Istanbul's Schneidertempel Art Center on April 8.
The exhibition is composed of documents and photographs brought in from Amsterdam-based Anne Frank House, the hiding place where Anne Frank wrote her famous diary during World War Two.
Anne Frank was one of the Jewish victims of Nazi persecution during the World War II. The Frank family tried to escape Nazi persecution by going into hiding. On July 1942, Otto Frank, Edith Frank-Hollander and their daughters Margot and Anne hid in this building on the Prinsengracht which is consisted of two parts: a front house and a back annexe. They were later joined by Mr. and Mrs. Daan, their sun Peter and Mr. Dussel. The uppermost floors of the back annexe became the hiding place. After more than two years the group was betrayed and deported. Anne and Margot died of typhes in Bergen-Belsen in March 1945, only a few weeks before the concentration camp was liberated. Otto Frank, the only member of the group to survive, returned after the war.
During the hiding period Anne Frank kept a diary. In it she described daily life in the back annexe, the isolation and the fear of discovery. Anne's diary survived the war: after the betrayal it was found by Miep Gies, one of the helpers. When it was confirmed that Anne would not be returning, Miep gave the manuscripts to Otto Frank. In 1947 the first Dutch edition appeared. Since then the diary has been published in more then 55 languages.
The exhibition will start accepting visitors on April 9, the day when the whole Western World commemorate more than 6 million Jewish people who lost their lives in Nazi concentration and death camps during the World War II.