Acting Courage

Student Reflections on Performing “The Diary of Anne Frank”

Step into the world of Anne Frank as Hickman High School students bring excerpts from her diary to life through performance, then share how embodying her story has impacted them personally. Through dramatic presentation and thoughtful conversation, explore courage, empathy and the search for hope — even in the darkest times.  Adults and teens. A part of the "Americans and the Holocaust" exhibit.

Step into the world of Anne Frank as Hickman High School students bring powerful excerpts from her diary to life through performance, then share how embodying her story has impacted them personally. Through dramatic presentation and thoughtful conversation, this event explores courage, empathy and the search for hope — even in the darkest times.

Adults and teens. (See all programming and tour opportunities related to this exhibit.)

Americans and the Holocaust: This event is part of the Daniel Boone Regional Library's programming related to "Americans and the Holocaust," a traveling exhibition that examines the motives, pressures and fears that shaped Americans’ responses to Nazism, war and genocide in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s. This exhibit is an educational initiative of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the American Library Association and will be on display at the Columbia Public Library from February 9 through March 16.

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