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Bringing Anne Frank to New York City

JL;DR SUMMARY Ronald Leopold, Executive Director of the Anne Frank House, has launched a full-scale recreation of Anne Frank's hiding place in Amsterdam at New York City's Center for Jewish History. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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HolocaustHistoryNew York CityAnne FrankEducationCenter For Jewish HistoryArtifactsExhibitionRonald Leopold

Places mentioned

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
"Ronald Leopold has served as executive director of one of the most visited museum sites in Europethe Anne Frank House in Amsterdamsince 2011."
New York City, New York, United States
"Now, in a move he sees as a stand against antisemitism and Holocaust denial, Leopold has brought the Anne Frank House to New York City with a full-scale recreation."
Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
"beginning with her early years in Frankfurt followed by her familys move to Amsterdam in 1934 to escape Nazi persecution"
Netherlands
"her arrest in 1944, her deportation to the Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands and, later, to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland."
Poland
"her arrest in 1944, her deportation to the Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands and, later, to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland."
Germany
"The show concludes with the tragic end of Annes life at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany at the age of 15."

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