2024-03-22 02:02:25
This content was published on March 22, 2024 – 00:02
(Keystone-ATS) The Swiss National Museum traces the history of Anne Frank’s family and its links with Switzerland. The exhibition presents the daily life of the Jewish family in Frankfurt then in Amsterdam, but also the life of his aunt and his grandmothers, refugees in Basel.
“The ‘Journal of Anne Frank’ serves as a common thread throughout the exhibition,” explains curator Nicole Staremberg. In this story, the young girl recounts the 735 days she spent in a hiding place in Amsterdam to escape persecution by the Nazis. But the illegal immigrants were discovered and deported in August 1944. Only the father, Otto, returned from the Auschwitz extermination camp.
The story of the Frank family bears witness to the fate of many Jewish families during the Second World War, recalls the curator. The exhibition shows the happy years in Frankfurt, where the family was well integrated, then the emigration and flight, and finally the deportation and death in the camps.
Hitler in power
“Anne Frank and Switzerland,” which opens Friday, reveals numerous documents and photographs, as well as the family’s personal effects. The exhibition looks back at Hitler’s rise to power, the context of the economic crisis and the start of persecution against the Jews, taken as scapegoats.
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