The Anne Frank Trust...by one minute of reflection led by Jo Coburn MC Candle lighters Annabel Schild Dr Martin Stern ... please ask for a manager. Courgette and roast pepper tart

The Anne Frank Trust

to mark Holocaust Memorial Day

The Anne Frank Trust Annual Lunch 2019 2

Order of CeremonyWelcomeTim Robertson, Chief Executive

The Anne Frank Trust UK

Candle lighting ceremony followed by one minute of reflection led by

Jo Coburn MC

Candle lighters Annabel Schild

Dr Martin Stern

Nasser Kurdy

Zena Aman

AppealAnne Frank Ambassadors

Shaan, Janiz, Yuri

Daniel Mendoza, Chair

The Anne Frank Trust UK

Guest speakerJames O’Brien

Menu

For guests with special dietary requirements

or allergies who may wish to know about food

ingredients, please ask for a manager.

Courgette and roast pepper tart with

romesco sauce

Blackened salmon with bok choi, chilli,

ginger and lemongrass rice

Lemongrass, mango and vanilla parfait

Coffee and chocolates

La Campagne, Chardonnay

La Campagne, Cabernet Sauvignon


My beloved husband Rolf Schild hosted the first ever lunch in 2003, shortly before his death. I have been proud to continue his legacy by supporting the event in his memory in the years since.

Rolf's involvement with the Trust came about through his dreadfully sad early experiences: he had escaped Nazi Germany as a child in 1939 but his parents were sent to the Chelmno Extermination Camp, where they endured terrible suffering and eventually, in 1942, perished.

Such was Rolf's courage and spirit that he refused to allow this tragic beginning to define him. He went on to live a full and successful life in London: he

was an entrepreneur; a pioneering inventor of medical equipment; an OBE; and a family man.

Of course my husband never forgot the awful hardship and pain of his early years. It lay behind his dedicated support of the Anne Frank Trust, and of its vital work to instill in young people Anne's message of acceptance, social justice and respect for all.

Today's lunch marks an occasion on which we can reflect on these aspirations, and appreciate both how far the Trust has come since my husband was first involved, and how very important its work continues to be.

Welcome from our hostDaphne Schild

I am honoured and privileged to once again host the Anne Frank Trust Lunch to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.

LRC are delighted to support the Anne Frank Trust


PresenterJo Coburn

Guest speakerJames O'Brien

Jo launched the programme in September last year with a new livelier approach to political discussion. Before that as presenter of the flagship Daily Politics she covered all the major political events of the last six years. From the days of the coalition government to the Scottish and EU referendums, leadership elections, General Elections, and Brexit, it has been a truly momentous time to be covering politics.

As an experienced political correspondent, she was afforded a ringside seat during the Blair/Brown years, covering the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and home-grown scandals such as Cash for Honours and MP’s expenses. Jo learned her trade on local commercial radio before joining BBC London as a political reporter. Since then she has broadcast on politics for all the major outlets including the Today

programme, the Six and Ten o'clock news bulletins, the BBC News Channel and Radio Four.

Jo has also written and broadcast two Radio Four documentaries including British Jews; Right and Left on Archive on Four.

Jo Coburn is the presenter of BBC2’s new lunchtime show Politics Live which broadcasts daily Monday to Friday.

The radio show is a platform from which callers often express views that are discriminatory – seeking to scapegoat minority groups, ‘benefit scroungers,’ or the EU for their own circumstances or the UK’s woes. The great appeal of the show is that most mornings James can be heard challenging those misconceptions and revealing the flawed thinking behind them.

Such exchanges have been the inspiration behind James’ recently published book: How to be right in a world gone wrong, in which he covers themes ranging from Brexit and Islam to LGBT issues and Trump. In each case James outlines the key questions required to reveal the inconsistencies and double standards that stoke prejudicial sentiment and expression.

There are expressions too of uncertainty in the book, with James revealing that his own path to understanding has at times been illuminated by callers: in a chapter on feminism he reveals how behaviour he had once considered quite normal could in fact be subtly diminishing of women.

James’ regular dismantling of common, harmful misconceptions and prejudicial views is an important contribution to a world in which the narrative of hate is growing. His understanding that no-one can be complacent when it comes to discrimination is in line with the Trust’s assertion that we must all, always, be open to learning about forms of discrimination that are embedded within our society and understanding ways in which we can challenge them.

James O’Brien is a journalist, broadcaster and author perhaps best known and admired for his daily phone-in show on LBC.

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Anne Frank AmbassadorsCandle lighters

Nasser Kurdy

Nasser Kurdy is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at South Manchester University Hospital who operated on those injured in the bombing that happened in the city in May 2017. In September of that year he was the victim of an unprovoked attack as he walked into the Islamic Cultural Centre in Hale, suffering a near fatal stabbing to the back of his neck. He responded to his attacker through forgiveness and compassion. Days later the father-of-three from a Syrian-Jordanian family was back at work treating his patients. Nasser is a much admired and respected member of his local community in Hale where he engages and encourages interactions with all faith groups.

Dr Martin Stern

Martin Stern was born in the Netherlands in 1938 to a Jewish father and a non-Jewish mother, both from Berlin. At the age of four, with his father in hiding and following the death of his mother, he was taken in by a Dutch couple, Cathrien and Johannes Rademakers, not far from where the Frank family were in hiding. Aged five, Martin and his year old sister Erika were arrested. The siblings spent time in Westerbork prison camp in the Netherlands and then Theresienstadt, north of Prague. Taken into the care of a Dutch woman in Theresienstadt, they escaped being put on a children’s train to Auschwitz. After the war Martin lived for a time on the Merwedeplein in Amsterdam, where Anne Frank had lived with her family before going into hiding – he first learned about her when her diary was read aloud at a school assembly in the early 1950s.

Zena AmanZena was only 16 when she was forced to flee extreme violence in war-torn Ethiopia. She arrived in Kent a year later after a long and difficult journey – the details of which she does not wish to recall. Her family, including her parents, all either perished in the war or were lost on the journey. She arrived in England alone. Volunteers from a local charity in Kent, working with the local authorities supported Zena, locating a safe place for her to live as quickly as they could so that she did not have to sleep rough. A family in Kent has taken Zena in while she works on her asylum claim, again through a charitable foundation. Relying purely on the kindness of strangers, Zena has built a new life in England. She attends a church and a college where she has connected with the Ethiopian Community. Zena says she has encountered nothing but warmth and support from people in England.

Yuri

Janiz

Shaan

16 year old Yuri is from Newcastle where he has recently taken part in the Anne Frank Trust’s Youth Action Project: a National Lottery funded initiative that has enabled the Trust, in partnership with organisations on the ground, to expand its work into the youth and community sector. The YAP gives young people the opportunity to explore issues of identity and community in their own lives, and creatively express their response to Anne's words and her legacy through such mediums as art, music and songwriting. Yuri has taken part in a number of Trust and other projects that draw attention to the issues of discrimination. He is studying A-Levels in Psychology; Applied Sciences; and Spanish.

16 year old London school student Janiz became an Anne Frank Ambassador in 2016. She has since been a vocal and active proponent of Anne’s message of equality and social justice for all. She has written blogs; featured in the Trust’s #shoutdownhate social media campaign film that raised awareness of the issue of hate crime experienced by young people; and most recently delivered a speech to hundreds of delegates at the Home Office’s Building a Stronger Britain Together conference on the subject of countering extremism.

Shaan is a bubbly and jovial 15 year old who is passionate about making the world a better place. He always believes that people progress and work better together. He’s very active in politics, having been a Labour Party member for nearly two years and has taken part in many rallies promoting ‘the betterment of society’. He spends many hours of the day reading the Guardian or looking through political Twitter. The Anne Frank Ambassador programme helped him explore the history of injustice, especially the horrors of the Holocaust and this sprung him into action to do more to bring change for the better to society.


It has been an honour and a pleasure to be more deeply involved with the Lunch Committee this year. As an educator, I admire the work of the Trust enormously: I have seen it in action and witnessed myself the real difference it makes to young people. I am pleased that today you will hear from some of those young people and appreciate for yourself the value of this unique charity’s work.

As we reflect on past horrors by remembering the Holocaust, we think too about all the conflicts, atrocities, acts of terror and violence committed around the world, by human beings against human beings, in the years since. Our candle lighters will remember their loved ones and others who have suffered. Certainly, this important event confronts us with the worst examples and consequences of prejudice and hatred, but it also allows us to appreciate and applaud the ways in which we may successfully engender a different narrative.

A heartfelt thanks especially to Daphne Schild and the Schild family for being our rock since 2003. Thank you also to Jo Coburn, to James O’Brien and to our three young ambassadors,

for giving up their time to make our Lunch come to life. Thank you too to our Lunch Committee for making possible today’s event. Most of all I am very grateful for your generous donations, without which, we cannot carry out our work. Your contributions through tickets, adverts and sponsorships enable us here at the Anne Frank Trust to reach out to as many young people as possible, and plant seeds of hope, goodness and self-belief: an antidote to despair, wickedness and self-doubt, and a recipe, surely, for a society free from prejudice and discrimination.

I hope that you will come to join us again next year!

Chair of the Lunch CommitteeFarida Mann

I am delighted to welcome you all to the Anne Frank Trust’s Annual Lunch to mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2019.

Rockwell are always proud to support the Anne Frank Trust,

who’s work help to empower many young people.

We wish you the best for the annual Anne Frank Trust Lunch.


We all have a stark choice to make – we either recognise what we are sleep walking into and take decisive action, or we just stand by, or look on and pretend either we can’t do anything about it or perhaps naively believe that it won’t affect us.

For those that don’t know me I’m inclined to neither dramatics nor exaggeration. So please bear this in mind when I say we are engaged in a battle; a battle of narratives that will define our and our younger generation's futures. And it’s too simplistic and lazy to classify that battle as “good versus evil” albeit framing it that way does allow one to reiterate the importance of taking action by evoking the never more relevant Edmund Burke quote “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing”.

The narrative we face is complex, nuanced and multi-dimensional. It is critical therefore that we equip our young people with the knowledge, tools and confidence not to stand by but to stand up, to every form of prejudice, however it presents or weaves itself into the fabric of the narrative.

At our core is a different narrative: the powerful and engaging story of a teenage girl and her father’s resolve that his daughter's diary should be a force

for good. The Anne Frank Trust is now recognised as the UK’s leading educational charity in tackling prejudice and discrimination. Our approach delivers measureable results.

The impact of our work, evidenced through rigorous independent evaluation has gained us support from three different government departments as well as through partnerships with the Big Lottery and the Metropolitan Police among others. I thank them all and you for your support that has enabled us to deliver our programmes throughout the UK.

But the biggest test lies ahead: if we are ever to realise a society free from prejudice and discrimination then we have to do more; we must increase our reach; we must educate and inspire a generation.

You will meet some of our young ambassadors today – just imagine what we could achieve if we could replicate our work in every school in the UK, consider the impact that would have upon all of society. Thank you for helping us in this undertaking at a time when our work has never been more needed.

Wishing you all a very happy, healthy and safe 2019.

We live in unprecedented times. Levels of geopolitical and community division – the ripple effects and consequences of which I’ve never witnessed in my lifetime – factored with the pervasiveness of social media, and the rise in vocal and violent expressions of prejudice and hate, present unquestionable challenges.

Chair of the Anne Frank Trust UKDaniel Mendoza


My exhilaration springs partly from the coming together of two strands of my professional experience. Half of my career has been about tackling urgent social needs: I have worked in child protection social work; criminal justice; and education in disadvantaged communities.

The other half has been about the transformative power of creativity – as chief executive of the Koestler Trust for arts in prisons, and most recently as director of the Royal Society of Literature.

I have arrived at the Anne Frank Trust to find a charity with exceptional evidence of social impact: the University of Kent’s research confirms that our education programmes result in significant change in young people’s openness to other groups. And the basis of these programmes is the extraordinary creative genius of Anne Frank. Through the writing and posthumous publication of the Diary, Anne’s Jewish experience of the Holocaust has been taken to heart by a global audience, and at the Trust I have seen again and again how this inspires young people of hugely different backgrounds to find their voices and speak out against hatred.

In consultation with trustees, staff and service users, I am currently generating a strategy for the Trust’s growth over the next three years.

We are planning:

• Digital innovations to make our exhibitions and workshops more interactive;

• Specialist versions of our programmes targeted at potential perpetrators of prejudice and at bridging divided communities;

• A speakers’ bureau of victims of hate crime, trained and supported to add impact to our existing workshops, and to take our message into businesses and independent schools.

But our boldest ambition is to extend our young ambassadors project into a national scheme with residential weekends and year-long creative mentoring. We want young people to take the lead in developing the charity, for instance through a youth board, and to become high-profile media spokespeople against discrimination, by telling their stories in their own way, as Anne Frank did hers.

Perhaps the greatest asset I have found at the Anne Frank Trust is the remarkable range and loyalty of its supporters, not least here at the annual lunch for Holocaust Memorial Day. I know that it is through your generosity that we will be able to maintain the work of this vital charity, widen its reach and deepen its impact in the future. I look forward greatly to meeting and working with you.

The Anne Frank Trust is a deeply needed, uniquely effective charity. I feel honoured and exhilarated to be its new chief executive.

Chief Executive of the Anne Frank Trust UKTim Robertson

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I am proud that the Government supports groups and individuals across the country to challenge extremism on the front-line, providing them with the tools they need through the Building a Stronger Britain Together (BSBT) programme. We need to break the momentum around hatred and intolerance, and the work that the Anne Frank Trust does in this regard is invaluable.

Over the last 12 months, the Trust has delivered a comprehensive series of work that has supported young people across the country in schools, building up their resilience so that they can withstand the messages of hate that unfortunately permeate through today’s society. For a digital generation, I am so pleased that elements like Digital Literacy will enable participants to understand existing dangers in the online world.

I am proud to support a network as rich, diverse and resilient as the Anne Frank Ambassadors undoubtedly are. I have witnessed the 'Shout Down Hate' social media campaign at first hand, and I was particularly overwhelmed by the two young Ambassadors at the recent BSBT national

conference. For ones so young, their ability to articulately bring their project to life to an audience of over 300 people is highly commendable.

The Anne Frank Trust is one of the key partners within the BSBT programme, and I am so pleased that we will renew this partnership afresh in the coming year, with further project work. The 'History for Today, Voices for Tomorrow' project will further empower young people to challenge and change discriminatory attitudes, which are often the pre-cursor to extremism.

Tackling extremism is not something that the Government can, or should, do on its own, so my sincere thanks go out to the entire Anne Frank Trust family for their continued efforts in being part of something that will certainly make a real difference to people’s lives. I look forward to continuing working closely with the Trust in future and wish you all the best on this extremely important day.

A message from Home Office Minister for Countering ExtremismBaroness Williams

As the Home Office Minister for Countering Extremism, I wanted to provide a few words to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. On such an important day, I want to reassure you that the Government remains fully committed to tackling extremism in all its forms.


Home is not merely a dwelling. Home is a place of belonging. It is where we feel comfortable and welcome.

The Anne Frank Trust, which uses Anne Frank’s words to inspire young people to stand up to prejudice and hatred, reminds us just how powerful the concept of home can be.

For two long years, Anne Frank’s family and the van Pels family attempted to make an Achterhuis a home. In her diary, Anne writes about missing her real home, and her desire to return to it, if only it was safe to do so.

Being torn from home is one of the traumas frequently inflicted on victims and survivors of genocide. This theme has personal resonance for me. As a young child, my father-in-law was forced to flee Nazi Germany and find a new home here in Britain. This year also marks the 25th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, and the 40th anniversary of the end of the Cambodian genocide, both of which reinforce the importance of learning from history in order to eradicate hatred. It is essential that our society works together to ensure survivors of genocidal acts are able to rebuild their lives in safe, supportive and resilient communities. This is a core part of my mission as Communities Secretary – building stronger, more integrated communities

where people of all backgrounds and beliefs have a stake and pride in the place that they live.

The UK is a welcoming, well-integrated and tolerant society. However, challenges remain. In recent years we have seen increased reports of religiously motivated hate crime, intolerance and prejudice.

Only last year, the Community Security Trust recorded 1,382 antisemitic incidents across the UK. This is the highest annual total on record. On this I am unequivocal – hatred and intolerance must find no place to flourish in any part of our society.

This Government recognises that education is key in tackling attitudes that underpin intolerance in our society. That is why we continue to support the vital work of the Anne Frank Trust. In schools across the country, the Trust works to empower young people, giving them the skills and knowledge necessary to challenge prejudice.

As we remember the bravery and resilience of those who have been torn from their homes during the Holocaust and in subsequent genocides, I am proud to stand alongside the Anne Frank Trust in their work to build a society in which everyone can feel safe – a society where everyone can feel comfortable making a home.

A message from Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentJames Brokenshire

This year’s Holocaust Memorial Day will focus on being ‘torn from home’ – torn from a place which is meant to be one of safety and security.

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"We must listen to ourselves, and to each other"by Sophie Yaron, granddaughter of Eva Schloss MBE, Anne Frank's posthumous step-sister

At the age of six I started to verbalise my fears. My younger sister had started school and at break time I ran to her, crying, telling her that we were not welcome at school because we were Jews.

Why did I say that to my sister? Had I encountered antisemitism? No. And to this day, I can say that I have never experienced any (explicit) antisemitism in my life.

However, human beings are connected to their past – ancestral trauma is present in our bodies even if we are not aware. My grandmother, Eva Schloss, was taken to Auschwitz when she was 15 years old, where she and her mother survived the atrocities, but lost her brother, father, and millions of other humans alongside them. After the war, my great grandmother met Otto Frank, Anne Frank’s father, and they married. They found Anne Frank’s diary. This book, these words, that the world knows so well.

The theme of this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day: Torn from Home, resonates with me on a deep level. I speak German, I even feel German sometimes – because after all, this is my heritage, even if we were persecuted. Being torn from home means more than just losing your environment. It means losing your education, language, friends, culture and your sense of home.

It is ancestral suffering that lies behind my feeling of being unwelcome. But I have come to realise that many of us feel like imposters. We must understand that everyone is looking for home. I am not talking about home as a location, but about the home inside of us: a place of acceptance – acceptance of our pain, and our authentic nature.

As I sit here writing, appreciating Anne Frank’s wisdom and experiencing in myself the remnants of the tragedies that she experienced, I look at this quote: “Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong!” and I feel she is talking about exactly this. We cannot truly love others, or fix suffering in the world, until we have found the ability to accept ourselves. We must seek to find this ‘quiet conscience’ that Anne describes.

We must listen to ourselves and to each other.

If the world did more of this, there would surely be little conflict, for we would all respect ourselves and each other.

We are all on a journey back home. And that home is already there, inside of us all, waiting for us to return.

As young as four years old I felt like an imposter, afraid that I was not welcome. I would scream at the school gate, I couldn’t bear going in.

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"Anne's eloquent writing offers hope for a future without prejudice"by Paula Fouce, Director of No Asylum

No Asylum tells the story of how a great treasure trove of history was lost in the mists of time for 70 years, until recently. A volunteer was sorting in the archives of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York, when she made a heart-pounding discovery: in an old, torn manila envelope were the lost documents of Anne Frank’s father Otto, desperately trying to save his family from the clutches of the Nazis. Otto’s letters reveal his heartbreaking failure to find a safe haven for his daughters, Anne and Margot, and his wife Edith. They tell the unknown chapter of Anne Frank’s life. Our biggest challenge in producing the film was to make it pertinent to today’s young audience, and so we incorporated modern scenes to engage them.

In No Asylum, Anne Frank’s surviving family members, Buddy Elias and Eva Schloss relate the unknown story of the Frank family’s frantic search for sanctuary. As the Nazi noose tightened throughout Europe, Otto Frank’s attempts for asylum were turned down. When the doors to other countries closed, he turned to the US as their last hope for refuge.

Otto Frank’s and the U.S. State Department’s 73 documents reveal the world’s failure to help the Jewish refugees. When the Franks went into hiding,

Otto’s letters stopped abruptly. Two years later, the Franks were arrested by the Gestapo and deported to Auschwitz. Anne and Margot were transported to Bergen Belsen soon after and died of typhus. Major Leonard Berney details how he and the British Army liberated Bergen Belsen mere days after Anne and Margot died.

In No Asylum, Anne's cousin, Buddy takes an emotional trip to Bergen Belsen. We accompanied him to film it, and you could feel his deep sadness. After the war, Otto published Anne’s diary, whose eloquent writings offer hope for a future without prejudice, and he dedicated the rest of his life to spreading her message. Anne Frank is an icon of courage for people everywhere. Today, even 70 years after her death, Anne’s words still ring true, and young people everywhere are inspired by her spirit of tolerance and respect.

The world turned its back on the Franks. The universal message of “never again” has even greater relevance today. No Asylum asks, when atrocities due to prejudice and discrimination occur: will society look away, or finally take action?

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On 3 September 2018 the documentary film, No Asylum: The Untold Chapter of Anne Frank’s Story was screened at Conway Hall in London. Eva Schloss MBE, a co-founder of the Anne Frank Trust UK, and Anne Frank's posthumous step-sister, shared her experiences with the audience, and I took part, as the film’s director.

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"I was encouraged by one of my teachers to train to be an Anne Frank Ambassador. There is absolutely no way I would have done it had it not been for that encouragement. In years 7 and 8 I was quiet and extremely shy. I still am shy really, and I never thought to put myself forward for things. I am very grateful for the encouragement I received, that I was pushed out of my comfort zone, because in doing so, I found an ability and interest that I didn’t know I had. I found my voice.

Throughout the training process we learnt the material in order to teach and talk about the exhibition knowledgeably. Critically, we learnt how to talk about a difficult subject in a sensitive manner. We learnt how we could be truthful and accurate but also explain things in a way that was sensitive and respectful.

It meant a great deal to me. I felt happy and proud that I was able to teach students about this important topic. I am sure you will be able to see in the faces of my peers that they too felt proud. And a real sense of accomplishment.

And why is this work important? Because prejudice and discrimination are all too common. I see it, my friends see it, my family and beyond see it. Racism, sexism, Islamophobia, antisemitism, homophobia, ablism, agism, body shaming, mental health discrimination – the list goes on and on.

It is so important to talk about these things and to, hopefully, teach people to be nicer to one another. It’s not just important to young people. It’s important to all people.

At school, Anne Frank Ambassadors held an evening event where we showed parents, carers, staff and friends of the school around the exhibition. It was really positive for us to have those conversations with parents, siblings and friends.

In fact, a parent who we had shown around the Anne Frank exhibition went to speak to our Head at the end of the evening. She said she was so happy to know that not only were students studying this at school, but that she had the opportunity to learn about it also. She said that whilst she

In October 2018, Anne Frank Ambassador Janiz addressed the Home Office's Building a Stronger Britain Together Conference in London.Here is her speech:

“Hello, my name is Janiz and I’m a Year 11 student. I am honoured to be asked to speak today as I think the issues that are being discussed here are very important and have a great deal of relevance to my – and my friends’ lives."

had heard the word ‘Holocaust’ before, she had not known what it was. She cried as she spoke. This is the impact that the work of the Anne Frank Trust can have.

We continued those conversations at school and at home. We told our friends and families about what we were learning and doing at school. And they were proud of us. They too attended the exhibition, saw photographs of us teaching, and told their friends also.

We discussed and debated with a far wider circle of people than the younger students we were tasked to teach, and in doing so, our own skills in having those sensitive and challenging discussions were developed further. And I hope that means that my generation is going to grow up to become adults who are equipped with the skills and understanding to challenge all forms of prejudice and discrimination.

I am sure you won’t be surprised to hear that to my friends and me, when we hear the word “extremism” we think “Islamic extremism”. We think of everything we have seen on TV and read about. We think of how some media outlets portray women who wear a headscarf somehow as terrorists, and as a Muslim myself, that hits home.

But there are a lot more types of extremism in the world than Islamic extremism, and what being an Anne Frank Ambassador has taught me is to think more broadly, think in terms of all kinds of hate, and how my friends and I might challenge it.

And it’s not just the responsibility of young people. It’s down to all of us.

To those of you who may be wondering how you can help get more young people involved in countering extremism, I would ask you to consider what role models we see. What leadership we see. What compassion in our daily lives we see. Is our world flooded with narratives of hate? Do we see people in positions of great power and influence advocating prejudice and discrimination? Do we see laws and decisions being enacted that will have great impact upon our lives and future that we have no voice in?

It’s not an easy topic. It’s not fun, but it needs to be talked about. And I would say to anyone who

suggests that it isn’t a relevant topic for them, or that it doesn’t happen in their schools, their organisation, their family, that if they don’t talk about it, how could they possibly know? Because it doesn’t start with acid attacks, vandalism, protests and explosions. It starts with the seeds of hate being planted and allowed to grow unchecked, unchallenged, unaddressed.

Young people sometimes need the opportunity to be involved to be presented to them, to be encouraged to participate, and I am so grateful that I had that opportunity given to me. If it weren’t for that, I wouldn’t be here, expressing my views. I hope that, even in a very small way, I have helped to contribute something positive in the world, and that is what I hope for the future, for all of us.”

It doesn’t start with acid attacks, vandalism, protests and explosions. It starts with the seeds of hate being planted and allowed to grow unchecked, unchallenged, unaddressed.”

– Janiz DjaferAnne Frank Ambassador

The Anne Frank Trust is a partner in the BSBT network of over 160 organisations supported through the government's counter-extremism strategy to create more resilient communities and stand up to extremism in all its forms.


Who we are

The Anne Frank Trust UK is an education charity, that uses Anne Frank’s life and diary to empower young people with the knowledge, skills and confidence to recognise, challenge and resist all forms of prejudice and discrimination.

What we doWe operate across seven regions of the UK, working with tens of thousands of young people in schools via a variety of innovative and stimulating programmes. Our educational work centres round an exhibition of Anne's life and diary, delivered alongside complementary workshops, peer education and an Ambassador programme.

In 2018 we delivered new and creative programmes to nurture digital resilience and responsibility against the dramatic rise of online hate speech, and to educate young people about prejudice-related bullying and extremist views. By making contemporary links with Anne’s story, we develop critical thinking and empathy among our workshop participants, helping them to gain a deeper knowledge of the very real dangers of prejudice and where it can lead.

The charity was founded in 1991 by family and friends of Otto Frank whose wish it had been for an educational organisation to be set up in his daughter's name here in the UK. Anne's inspirational message of equality and human rights for all continue to be fundamental in our work.

We work with young people to deliver our core work through programmes in primary and secondary schools, in alternative provision settings, communities and in the criminal justice sector. Our methodology delivers short term impact among participants and nurtures a legacy of longer term transformative social change,

starting with the delivery of our exhibition Anne Frank: A History for Today. Our approach is flexible and adaptable to suit the needs of individual schools, national curricula and local communities.

Volunteer peer guides learn about Anne's story, the history of the Holocaust and related themes such as, prejudice, identity, stereotyping and human rights and go on to become Anne Frank Ambassadors. Our vision is a society safe from prejudice and discrimination. By continuing to encourage young people to speak out against hatred, we are driving a positive narrative and creating a safer society.

London

West Midlands

Yorkshire and Humberside

North East

Scotland

North West

East of England


Our reach in 2018

55,260 PEOPLE ENGAGED WITH OUR WORK

8,995VISITED A PUBLIC

EXHIBITION

WORKED WITH

1,300OFFENDERS

330 ATTENDED A WORKSHOP

WORKED IN

52PRIMARY SCHOOLS

2,646CHILDREN ATTENDED A WORKSHOP

ANNE FRANK AMBASSADORS CREATED

2611,254 PEER GUIDES TRAINED

BECAME ANNE FRANKAMBASSADORS476

WORKED IN

97SECONDARY SCHOOLS

28,672STUDENTS VISITEDAN EXHIBITION

12,396 ATTENDED A WORKSHOP


To monitor the impact of our work in schools, alternative provision settings and prisons, we have condensed existing evaluation processes and employed new techniques, software and tools to measure data and responses from participants. Our innovative approach enables young people to express their learning creatively: through assemblies, workshops, films, exhibitions and social media campaigns.

We have continued our partnership with the University of Kent whose academics conducted analysis of our work about attitudes towards others in a MA thesis this year, which pointed to the strong positive impact of our work in terms of respect for difference and an increase in confidence.

We look forward to continuing to share more results of the impact of our programmes with our supporters in 2019.

Our impact

Over the last year we have continued to develop and hone our education programmes to ensure they remain relevant and beneficial to the young people we work with.

84% HAD MORE CONFIDENCE TO REPORT PREJUDICE BASED BULLYING

It really changed my perspective on different types of bullying and prejudice against other people... I didn’t realise how many different types there are, so I’m really more aware of it now.”

– Anne Frank Ambassador, Biddick Academy, Tyne and Wear


77% KNEW MORE ABOUT THE HARM PREJUDICE CAN CAUSE

73% COULD BETTER EXPRESS THEIR VOICE IN THEIR LOCAL COMMUNITY

Of the young people assessed following Anne Frank Trust programmes:


Every day we are fulfilling our mission of using Anne Frank’s life and diary to empower young people with the knowledge, skills and confidence to challenge all forms of prejudice and discrimination.

In the last academic year, we reached 55,260 children and young people, and worked in 185 educational establishments across seven regions of the UK. The impact of our work has been recognised by the Equality and Human Rights Commission and in the Government’s refreshed Hate Crime Action Plan.

2018 was our most successful year to date. But there is so much more we could do. You can help us to continue our essential work.

What your support helps us achieve

The generosity of our benefactors helps us to plan and sustain our work over the following year. Benefactors commit to giving year-on-year, with a choice of donation levels. Benefactors receive:

• Invitations to special events upcoming in 2019

• The opportunity to visit projects and to meet and hear from beneficiaries

• A private VIP tour of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam

• Your name listed in our annual lunch brochure, our annual review and on our website. (You may choose to remain anonymous)

• Regular updates on our work

Become a benefactor

Support your local school or community through a corporate partnership with the Anne Frank Trust. Businesses gain:

• Alignment with our mission of giving young people the knowledge and tools to challenge prejudice and discrimination

• Opportunities for your staff to volunteer and provide individual expertise to further our work

• Support for your local school or community with a positive educational experience

• Opportunities to attend networking and other events

• Positive PR opportunities through sponsoring a local award for young people

• Your corporate brand on our materials

Become a corporate supporter

“I learnt a lot during this process: not just about Anne’s story, but about the way her legacy has changed the world today – and that no matter how old you are, or where you come from, you can make a difference.”

Sabina, Anne Frank Ambassador

“If you care about British society... investing in the Anne Frank Trust UK is just about the best way you could support that ongoing programme, not just for today, but for future generations to come.”

Jack Morris CBE

To discuss supporting the Anne Frank Trust UK please contact Lara Wilks Sloan on 020 7284 5858 or [email protected]


Daphne Schild Pardeep and Bim SandhuCandice and Lyall CresswellMilton Damerel TrustSusan TobbellRosemary and Walter GoldsmithJoanna Myers and Peter Oppenheimer (GS GIVES) Christian RochatThe Rosemarie Nathanson Charitable TrustKirsh Foundation CS Global Partners Regent Exhibitions LtdThe Barbour FoundationHugh FraserJudith Katzler and Geoffrey Jayson The Heathside Charitable Trust The Hirschel Foundation The Humanitarian Trust The Vandervell Foundation Stephen KingThe Ironmongers' Company The Morris Charitable Trust

Gerald Edelman Chartered Accountants Anne Baruch and Claude Green Caroline and Justin RandallJonathan and Jacqueline GestetnerYaena and Gavin BoyleJennifer and Michael WhitmanValentina and Massimo Della Ragione Linda and Harvey RosenblattMcGrath Charitable Trust BenescoThe Bloom FoundationThe Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation Michelle and Daniel Mendoza Victoria and Edward Bonham Carter Sara and Adam Franks Amanda and Mark Gershinson Isabella and Natasha TagliaferriSybilla and Leo Friedler Charitable TrustThe Harris Family Charitable Trust

We also gratefully acknowledge those benefactors who wish to remain anonymous

Our benefactors

Funders and supporters

The 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust

YBA Foundation

The Toni Schiff Memorial Fund


Farida Mannan (Chair)

Carina Bauer

Lisa Digrandi

Christiane Elsenbach

Jacqueline Gestetner

John Glasby

Annie Kleiner

Larissa Lockwood

Daniel Mendoza

Valentina Pan

Pardeep Sandhu

Our Anne Frank Ambassadors

Yuri, Janiz and Shaan

Our Lunch Committee

With special thanks to

Your generosity and support have greatly contributed to

the success of today’s lunch

Thank you

Our thanks

The Anne Frank Trust UK extend grateful thanks to all our guests, table hosts, brochure advertisers, lunch committee and absent supporters. Thanks also go the Hilton on Park Lane for their continued support.

And to all those who gave their time and shared their experiences for the purpose of our campaign film.

Our Host

Daphne Schild

Our Presenter

Jo Coburn

Our Speaker

James O’Brien

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We are proud to support the Anne Frank Trust in commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day and in the fight against all forms of hate, prejudice and discrimination.

12 June 2019 will mark what would have been Anne Frank’s 90th birthday.To honour the occasion, the Anne Frank Trust UK is planning an exciting gala event to take place over the summer.

We look forward to sharing further details with you in the weeks to come and hope that as many of you as possible will be able to join us in celebrating Anne’s extraordinary legacy.

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