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Anne Frank: A History for Today throughout the Community by SONI MARTIN The JFK Special Forces Museum is displaying artifacts from World War II The Arts Council of Fayetteville and Cumberland County exhibit, Anne ��� items belonging to Arie Dirk ���Captain Harry��� Bestebreurtje, a member of Frank: A History for Today, is the springboard for the community dialogue the Office of Strategic Services Jedburgh teams that dropped into Germany that is taking place ��� all focusing on the effects of intolerance in the past in support of Operations Market Garden and the liberation of the Jewish inand today. Exhibits and events are scheduled across the community through ternment camp of Westerbork.��� April 18, to examine and explore the effects of prejudice and bigotry. Area Throughout the Anne Frank: A History for Today exhibit, there is plenty art, cultural and historical organizations have all come together to present of signage to explain the posters, the artwork and artifacts. Besides the programs and activities to challenge our positions on fundamental social OSS small artifacts, Roxanne Merritt, curator of the JFK Special Warfare values about tolerance and to educate about our individual and collective reMuseum, has included the actual uniform of Arie Dirk ���Captain Harry��� sponsibilities to understand and respect diversity in our society. Bestebreurtje, Merritt noted, ���Captain Harry would make three jumps beIf you start the month-long activities at the Arts Council, then visitors will tween August and September 1944. On display are his jump uniform and enter from the back side of the building. Descending the concrete stairs into the basement. The sensory experience begins as you leave the light of the day ���hamper,��� a combination of U.S. and British uniform pieces, as well as other items that were either issued to him or that he acquired in Holland while and walk into a dark and dirty hallway ��� the beginning of Anne Frank: A working with the partisans and the 82nd Airborne Division.��� History for Today exhibit. Debris, dirt, disorder and World War II resistance As you leave the Anne Frank exhibit and enter the bookstore area, visitors posters fill the hallway. Visitors immediately begin to experience a narrative, have had an opportunity to think about fundamental social values like tolera story with visual clues. A seated volunteer will give you some clues as you ance, mutual respect for human rights and human dignity. Those ideas can leave the hallways leading you into the large basement space. be applied as you exit the exhibit and enter the bookstore. Anti-bullying postAnother volunteer guides you into the dark basement pointing out actual ers fill the bookstore space. A special wall is created for visitors to address Nazi-propaganda posters from the Anne Frank Center USA as you enter the anti-bullying theme by telling their personal experiences about bullying. and more reproductions of resistance posters (donated by the JFK Special Visitors are encouraged to write and post a 5���x5��� card Warfare Museum) as you leave the space. Other than about their personal experiences in witnessing or being that, in silence, you explore the basement space at your bullied and what they did about it? own pace ��� to read, see, hear, feel and experience the The Anne Frank: A History for Today exhibit at the clues of the narrative. The silence of the space is broken Arts Council ends on April 21. For information and by a repeating, reverberating sound; amid the rubble, extended hours, call 910-323-1776 or visit www. black and white photographic images are flashing on theartscouncil.com/afe.php. The exhibit is only one a far wall. Before leaving the basement environment part of a community-wide effort to explore the effects you are able to climb up several stairs to peer into a yet of intolerance and promote diversity and tolerance. The darker space under the Arts Council building, a hiding public is invited to attend all the exhibits and events surspace, where someone is living? rounding the Anne Frank: A History for Today exhibit. Leaving the basement in silence, you ascend a set of All the exhibits and events are all free to the public (exstairs leading up to ground level ��� more clues. Under cept for the Cameo Art Theater). the steps quotes by Adolf Hitler remind us of the hate March 18 to April 21, 2013 that drove genocide, the extermination of millions of Anne Frank: A History for Today and Art and people referred to as ���the undesirables.��� As you asPropaganda in Nazi-Occupied Holland (on loan from the cend the stairs several quotes by Anne Frank reflect the Anne Frank Center USA) hopefulness of the human spirit amid the devastation The Arts Council and genocide. The few quotes clearly contrast persecuThe exhibits has interactive components, educational tion and intolerance with tolerance and hope by those panels that inform us about the history of the Holocaust being persecuted ��� walking up the stairs, pictures of from the perspective of Anne Frank and her family, a those who suffered peer down as you ascend. collection of original Nazi-occupied propaganda posters, Before entering the main gallery, visitors are able to original relief prints, original lithographs and an on-site view a 20-minute video about the life of Anne Frank. bookstore that offers exhibit-related items. The video, as well the information panels, original lithoAnne Frank Exhibition hours: Monday-Thursday: 9 a.m.-5 p.m., graphs and relief prints in the main gallery are all from Photo credit: ��AFS/AFF Amsterdam/Basel Friday: 9 a.m.-noon, Saturday-Sunday: noon-4 p.m. the Anne Frank Center USA. According to the center, Anne Frank: A History for Today was develGuided tours available. ���the focus of the exhibit is placed on the distinction oped by the Anne Frank House and is sponApril 1 to May 22, 2013 between individuals who chose to join the Nazi party Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book and become perpetrators, those who remained bystand- sored in North America by the Anne Frank Burnings ers and the few who resisted Nazi tyranny.��� As well, the Center USA. Cumberland County Public Library & Information panels ���inform us about the history of the Holocaust Center, Headquarters Branch from the perspective of Anne Frank and her family.��� This multi-media traveling exhibition from the United States Holocaust In the main gallery, after viewing the extensive information panels, visitors Memorial Museum explores how book burning became a potent symbol in will be able to see the original lithographs by Anton Pieck. The artist interpreted Henri Pieck���s sketches during his brother���s internment at Buchenwald America���s battle against Nazism and why they continue to resonate with the public ��� in film, literature and political discourse ��� to this day. Concentration Camp. In addition, visitors can study authentic linoleum March 18 to April 21, 2013 and woodcut prints, presented in 1946 by Marie De Zaaijer to H. M Queen History of Fayetteville���s Jewish Community Wilhelmina, depicting the ���remembrances, suffering and hardship endured Fayetteville Transportation & Local History Museum by Holland during its struggle with its militaristic neighbor.��� Found throughout Fayetteville���s Jewish community are personal stories Also, in the main gallery are artifacts from the 82d Airborne Division War of hard work and challenges of Jewish immigrants who became Southern. Memorial Museum and the JFK Special Warfare Museum, both located at Struggling to maintain their cultural and religious identities in a new land, Fort Bragg. An authentic Dutch National Socialist Movement flag is on disassimilation meant blending their own traditions into Southern culture. play from the 82d Airborne Division War Memorial Museum. According to March 19 to June 16, 2013 John Aarsen, ���The Dutch National Socialist movement adopted this flag in Fayetteville and the Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 1936, the movement began to grow from a few members, became openly anMuseum of the Cape Fear Historical Complex ti-Semitic, and grew to more than 100,000 when the 82d Airborne Division Exhibit will examine an event from America���s troubled racial history. Thirty troopers captured the flag in 1944.��� 20 UCW APRIL 3-9, 2013 WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM