Community of Courage - Anne Frank Exhibit
Community of Courage, a student-guided exhibit about the life of Anne Frank, will be at Holland High School April 20-May 7, 2025.
Community partners and the general public are encouraged to experience the exhibit on the following dates:
- Thursday, April 24, 6-8pm
- Tuesday, April 29, 6-8pm
- Monday, May 5, 8am-3pm
- Tuesday, May 6, 8am-3pm
- Wednesday, May 7, 6-8pm
This exhibit uses panels with photographs and the writings of Anne Frank to connect her life story with the present. Visitors will be encouraged to consider how prejudice can lead to exclusion and discrimination even in our world today.
This is the exhibit’s first stop at a school in Michigan.
“Holland Public Schools is proud to host this traveling exhibit. We hope it will encourage teachers, students, and our neighbors to engage in conversations that support the idea that, even today, the life of Anne Frank provides us all with valuable lessons.”
Melissa Remillard – HPS Associate Superintendent of Curriculum
A group of 20 Holland High students have been selected to serve as docents for the exhibit. They will be trained by exhibit developers and will lead visitors as they experience the Anne Frank story. The exhibit will be open to all Socials Studies classes at Holland High during school hours during the week of April 20. Middle School and Upper Elementary students from around the district will visit the exhibit during the week of April 27.
Community partners and the general public are encouraged to experience the exhibit on the following dates:
- Thursday, April 24, 6-8pm
- Tuesday, April 29, 6-8pm
- Monday, May 5, 8am-3pm
- Tuesday, May 6, 8am-3pm
- Wednesday, May 7, 6-8pm
The exhibit will be in the Holland High School Media Center. Visitor should expect to spend about an hour with the exhibit. Free tickets can be reserved at www.HEF.ludus.com.
The Holland Educational Foundation will host a Grand Opening Dinner on Tuesday, April 22 at 6pm. The dinner will include tours of the exhibit, student winners of the district-wide Community of Courage writing contest, and guest speaker Doyle Stevich from the Anne Frank Center at the University of South Carolina. During the HEF event filmmaker Robert Moniot will host a screening of “The Ice Cream Man.” This short biographical drama tells the story of Ernst Cahn, an ice cream parlor owner, who is targeted by Nazis after the invasion of the Netherlands during World War II. A limited number of tickets to the Grand Opening Dinner are available at www.HEF.ludus.com.
The traveling Anne Frank exhibit was developed by the Anne Frank House, Amsterdam, and distributed throughout the U.S. by the Anne Frank Center at the University of South Carolina.