Powerful exhibition opens at Mossley Mill

Anne Frank was a German Jewish teenager who, 64 years ago, was forced into hiding with her family in Amsterdam in order to escape persecution and extermination of the Jews by Hitler's Nazi regime.

During her time in hiding Anne wrote a profoundly honest and incredibly poignant account of that period in her now world famous diary.

Published by her father after her death in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, 'The Diary of Anne Frank' has since inspired millions of people at challenging junctures in their lives - including South Africa's Nelson Mandela, during his lengthy incarceration at the time of the apartheid struggle.

Newtownabbey Borough Council has teamed up with the Anne Frank Trust UK to present this new exhibition which was launched on Tuesday, August 27 and will run on Level 3 at Mossley Mill until September 30. The Anne Frank ( + you ) exhibition will be open to the public every weekday from 9am to 5pm, except Wednesdays when it will open 9am to 9pm. It will also be open on Saturdays from 12 noon until 4pm.

Anne Frank ( + you ) is recommended for adults and children above 10 years and is many layered audio-visual experience as well as a journey of fact-finding and sef-exploration.

It includes the Anne Frank photo album featuring newly discovered photographs of Anne and her sister Margot; replica artefacts from Anne's life and the Holocaust; a chilling genocide tunnel with powerful film footage; an almost life-size replica of Anne's room in the Secret Annexe; an interactive virtual tour of the Secret Annexe in Amsterdam; poignant pieces of Anne's writing, set against powerful graphic imagery of the social issues affecting us all in modern society, and the chance to add your name to the Anne Frank Declaration and to keep a personalised copy.

Anne Frank ( + you ) presents contemporary issues, including racism in football, the right to wear religious symbols, bullying and the plight of child soldiers too, and it includes interviews with British teenagers and photographic documentary evidence.

Admission to the exhibition is free.