Anne Frank Day 2026

On 12 June 2026, »Anne Frank Tag« will take place for the tenth consecutive year. Framed by the theme »Telling History«, the Anne Frank Zentrum is once again developing a range of educational materials this year, which will be distributed free of charge to all 843 registered schools across Germany. The focus is to help participating students understand how vivid and unfinished history can be, and how actively remembrance must be maintained so that events are not forgotten and disappear from collective memory. Anne Frank Tag consistently emphasises the active role of students within the project: they develop their own forms of remembrance relating to history, create connections between past and present, and research and reflect on their own stories connected to the theme.

Alongside the history of the Nazi regime and the Holocaust, this year greater attention will be given to the life story of Anne Frank’s lesser-known sister, Margot. In 2026, the 100th anniversary of Margot’s birth will be commemorated. Another focus will address the comparatively underrepresented history within German remembrance culture of the Nazi regime persecution of Sinti and Roma people as a history of extermination. In an interview published in the Anne Frank Newspaper, the German Sinto woman Petra Rosenberg speaks about the biography of her father, Otto Rosenberg, who survived the Holocaust — or Porajmos against Sinti and Roma people — and later became an important civil rights activist in Germany.

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