In April, the Boone County Public Library will take a step back in time to remember the Holocaust.
The traveling exhibition, Anne Frank: A History for Today, opens at Boone County Public Library main branch, 1786 Burlington Pike in Burlington, on April 4 and runs through April 30.
The story of Anne Frank and her family is told in both English and Spanish on the 30 panels of the exhibition.
The exhibit leads visitors from Anne’s early years growing up in Germany, to her immigration to the Netherlands, through her time in hiding, to the eventual betrayal and arrest of her family.
The family’s story is juxtaposed against the broader history of the time period, documenting Hitler’s rise to power, World War II, and the Holocaust. Anne’s own writing provides a central voice to the narrative, sharing her candid moments of humor, affection, fear and hope for the future.
The exhibit was developed by the Anne Frank House and is sponsored in North America by The Anne Frank Center USA.
To go along with the exhibition, Conrad Weiner will once again talk about his experience as a small child in a labor camp.
Over the last three years, Boone County Public Library has brought three different Holocaust survivors into the Library to tell their stories. Weiner was a speaker two years ago.
Due to the overwhelming popularity of his story, Weiner has agreed to share his experiences on two different dates at the Main Library: Wednesday, April 6 at 7 p.m. and again on Wednesday, April 13 at 7 p.m.
Conrad Weiner was born in a small town in Bucovina, once part of Romania, in 1938. After a brief occupation of the region by the Soviet Army in 1941, Romanian authorities in alliance with German forces started a massive campaign of annihilation and deportation of Jews to Transnistria.
They were taken by cattle car and then forced to walk for two weeks in snow and mud to the labor camp, Budi. Conrad was 3 1/2 years old at the time.
In 1944, at the age of 6 1/2, Conrad and the 300 surviving prisoners at Budi were liberated by the advancing Soviet Army and repatriated to Romania.
Hear the rest of his story at the library in April.
More information about Conrad Weiner is available here .
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