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Anne frank center for mutual respect demands apology from donald trump
Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect, the U.S. national organization in the worldwide network of Anne Frank organizations, aims to "address civil and human rights across America." Through educational programs and grassroots organizing, the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect "calls out prejudice, counters discrimination and advocates for the kinder and fairer world of which Anne Frank dreamed."
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- Anne frank center for mutual respect demands apology from donald trump
- History of the organization
- Renamed
- 2017 Holocaust Remembrance Day
- References
Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect works to fight hatred of refugees and immigrants, as well as antisemitism, sexism, racism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, bias against the differently abled and any other hate that runs counter to the American promise of freedom. The organization has been vocal in its opposition to the civil and human rights policies of President Trump. The organization opposes President Trump's executive orders to ban Muslim refugees and to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, pointing out that Anne Frank and her family were refugees to whom the United States had refused entry.
Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect is headquartered in New York City, and opened an additional office in Los Angeles in 2017. The organization conducts educational programs and community organizing across the entire United States.
The organization's executive director is Steven Goldstein, a civil rights leader whose work has been the subject of two motion pictures, the 2007 Oscar-winning documentary Freeheld, and the 2015 full-length feature film of the same name. Goldstein became executive director of the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect in 2016.
History of the organization
Otto Frank, Anne's father, founded the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect in the United States in 1959. The organization is one of the original three Anne Frank organizations, which include the museum, Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, founded in 1960; and Otto Frank's charitable foundation, the Anne Frank Fonds in Basel, Switzerland, founded in 1963.
All the organizations are named after Anne, the younger of his two children. From 1942 to 1944, Anne, her sister Margot and their parents Otto and Edith hid in a secret annex at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, along with four other Jews. The Nazis, acting on an anonymous tip, found all eight in 1944, and would kill all but Otto. Anne died in 1945 at age 15 at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Earlier in his life, Otto Frank lived in the United States. At age 19, he came to New York to do an apprenticeship at Macy's before he returned home to Germany. After Anne died, he realized even more the importance of the American market in preserving Anne's legacy. The success of 1955 Broadway play, The Diary of Anne Frank had made Anne's diary – the book – an international sensation. Four years later, he established the first Anne Frank organization in the United States.
Renamed
In 2016, the organization, previously known simply as the Anne Frank Center, renamed itself the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect to reflect its increased emphasis on civil and human rights today. The organization's choice of "Mutual Respect" for its expanded name was inspired by Otto Frank, who founded the organization to help "build a world based on equal rights and mutual respect. The organization also closed its small public gallery in lower Manhattan, which had gotten visitors mostly from New York, and replaced the gallery with an expansion of community-based programs across the United States.
Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect is an independent organization with its own Board of Directors. One program of the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect is to present exhibits across the United States about Anne's life and legacy produced by the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, accompanied by teachers and related programming from the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect to incorporate contemporary social justice issues.
2017 Holocaust Remembrance Day
In accordance with its mission to fight against prejudice, the organization's executive director, Steven Goldstein, responded to the Trump Administration's failure to mention the Jewish people in an important citation about the Holocaust.
The President's sudden acknowledgment is a Band-Aid on the cancer of anti-Semitism that has infected his own administration. Trump's statement today is a pathetic asterisk of condescension after weeks in which he and his staff have committed grotesque acts and omissions reflecting anti-Semitism, yet day after day have refused to apologize and correct the record. Make no mistake: The anti-Semitism coming out of this administration is the worst we have ever seen from any administration. The White House repeatedly refused to mention Jews in its Holocaust remembrance, and had the audacity to take offense when the world pointed out the ramifications of Holocaust denial.