The Benson Librarian, Ms. Ralph hosted the Anne Frank exhibit in the library. It ran for a few weeks in Feb. 2024 to show how Anne Frank was hiding under the Nazi’s occupation and how her story was just by her diary and written documents.  

Annelies Marie Frank was a German-born Jewish girl. For such an early age, she started participating in journalism and wrote in her diary every day. Anne became an icon for the holocaust after her diary was published by her father.

On July 6, 1924, Anne Frank, her family and a few other Jews went into hiding from the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Frank and her family hid for two years in a hidden room behind a bookshelf of her father’s, Otto Frank’s workshop until someone made a call to rat them out. Anne’s last diary entry was August 1, 1944. 

The exhibit was instructed by students who gave the tours to those who wanted to see the exhibit.  

“I participated in viewing the Anne Frank exhibit while it was up in the library,” Rakim Hayes said, “It was a great tour through her life and a surrounding event as a meticulously decorated timeline.”