The Frank Trust

to mark Holocaust Memorial Day Order of Ceremony

Welcome Tim Robertson, Chief Executive The 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 Menu Appeal Anne Frank Ambassadors Courgette and roast pepper tart with romesco sauce Shaan, Janiz, Yuri

Daniel Mendoza, Chair Blackened salmon with bok choi, chilli, The Anne Frank Trust UK ginger and lemongrass rice

Guest speaker Lemongrass, mango and vanilla parfait James O’Brien Coffee and chocolates

La Campagne, Chardonnay

La Campagne, Cabernet Sauvignon

For guests with special dietary requirements or allergies who may wish to know about food ingredients, please ask for a manager.

The Anne Frank Trust Annual Lunch 2019 2 Welcome from our host Daphne Schild

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

My beloved husband Rolf Schild hosted the first ever was an entrepreneur; a pioneering inventor lunch in 2003, shortly before his death. I have been of medical equipment; an OBE; and a family man. proud to continue his legacy by supporting the event in his memory in the years since. Of course my husband never forgot the awful hardship and pain of his early years. It lay behind Rolf's involvement with the Trust came about his dedicated support of the Anne Frank Trust, and through his dreadfully sad early experiences: he had of its vital work to instill in young people Anne's escaped Nazi as a child in 1939 but his message of acceptance, social justice and respect LRC are delighted to support parents were sent to the Chelmno Extermination for all. Camp, where they endured terrible suffering and the Anne Frank Trust eventually, in 1942, perished. Today's lunch marks an occasion on which we can reflect on these aspirations, and appreciate both Such was Rolf's courage and spirit that he refused how far the Trust has come since my husband to allow this tragic beginning to define him. He went was first involved, and how very important its work on to live a full and successful life in London: he continues to be.

The Anne Frank Trust Annual Lunch 2019 4 Presenter Guest speaker Jo Coburn James O'Brien

Jo Coburn is the presenter of BBC2’s new lunchtime show which James O’Brien is a journalist, broadcaster and author perhaps best known broadcasts daily Monday to Friday. and admired for his daily phone-in show on LBC.

Jo launched the programme in September last year programme, the Six and Ten o'clock news bulletins, The radio show is a platform from which callers There are expressions too of uncertainty in the with a new livelier approach to political discussion. the BBC News Channel and Radio Four. often express views that are discriminatory – book, with James revealing that his own path to Before that as presenter of the flagship seeking to scapegoat minority groups, ‘benefit understanding has at times been illuminated by she covered all the major political events of the last Jo has also written and broadcast two Radio Four scroungers,’ or the EU for their own circumstances callers: in a chapter on feminism he reveals how six years. From the days of the coalition government documentaries including British Jews; Right and Left or the UK’s woes. The great appeal of the show is behaviour he had once considered quite normal to the Scottish and EU referendums, leadership on Archive on Four. that most mornings James can be heard challenging could in fact be subtly diminishing of women. elections, General Elections, and Brexit, it has been those misconceptions and revealing the flawed a truly momentous time to be covering politics. thinking behind them. James’ regular dismantling of common, harmful misconceptions and prejudicial views is an As an experienced political correspondent, she was Such exchanges have been the inspiration behind important contribution to a world in which the afforded a ringside seat during the Blair/Brown James’ recently published book: How to be right narrative of hate is growing. His understanding years, covering the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and in a world gone wrong, in which he covers themes that no-one can be complacent when it comes to home-grown scandals such as Cash for Honours ranging from Brexit and Islam to LGBT issues discrimination is in line with the Trust’s assertion and MP’s expenses. Jo learned her trade on local and Trump. In each case James outlines the key that we must all, always, be open to learning about commercial radio before joining BBC London as a questions required to reveal the inconsistencies and forms of discrimination that are embedded within political reporter. Since then she has broadcast on double standards that stoke prejudicial sentiment our society and understanding ways in which we can politics for all the major outlets including the Today and expression. challenge them.

The Anne Frank Trust Annual Lunch 2019 6 Anne Frank Ambassadors Candle lighters Yuri

Nasser Kurdy 16 year old Yuri is from Newcastle where he has recently taken part in the Anne Frank Trust’s Youth Action Project: a Nasser Kurdy is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at South Manchester National Lottery funded initiative that has enabled the Trust, University Hospital who operated on those injured in the bombing that in partnership with organisations on the ground, to expand happened in the city in May 2017. In September of that year he was the its work into the youth and community sector. The YAP gives victim of an unprovoked attack as he walked into the Islamic Cultural young people the opportunity to explore issues of identity Centre in Hale, suffering a near fatal stabbing to the back of his neck. He and community in their own lives, and creatively express responded to his attacker through forgiveness and compassion. Days later their response to Anne's words and her legacy through such the father-of-three from a Syrian-Jordanian family was back at work treating mediums as art, music and songwriting. Yuri has taken part in his patients. Nasser is a much admired and respected member of his local a number of Trust and other projects that draw attention to the community in Hale where he engages and encourages interactions with all issues of discrimination. He is studying A-Levels in Psychology; faith groups. Applied Sciences; and Spanish.

Dr Martin Stern

Martin Stern was born in the Netherlands in 1938 to a Jewish father and Janiz 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 16 year old London school student Janiz became an Anne Frank Dutch couple, Cathrien and Johannes Rademakers, not far from where the Ambassador in 2016. She has since been a vocal and active Frank family were in hiding. Aged five, Martin and his year old sister Erika proponent of Anne’s message of equality and social justice were arrested. The siblings spent time in Westerbork prison camp in the for all. She has written blogs; featured in the Trust’s Netherlands and then Theresienstadt, north of Prague. Taken into the care #shoutdownhate social media campaign film that raised of a Dutch woman in Theresienstadt, they escaped being put on a children’s awareness of the issue of hate crime experienced by young train to Auschwitz. After the war Martin lived for a time on the Merwedeplein people; and most recently delivered a speech to hundreds in , where Anne Frank had lived with her family before going of delegates at the Home Office’s Building a Stronger Britain into hiding – he first learned about her when her diary was read aloud at a Together conference on the subject of countering extremism. school assembly in the early 1950s.

Zena Aman Shaan Zena 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 Shaan is a bubbly and jovial 15 year old who is passionate – the details of which she does not wish to recall. Her family, including about making the world a better place. He always believes her parents, all either perished in the war or were lost on the journey. She that people progress and work better together. He’s very active arrived in England alone. Volunteers from a local charity in Kent, working in politics, having been a Labour Party member for nearly with the local authorities supported Zena, locating a safe place for her to two years and has taken part in many rallies promoting ‘the live as quickly as they could so that she did not have to sleep rough. betterment of society’. He spends many hours of the day A family in Kent has taken Zena in while she works on her asylum claim, reading or looking through political Twitter. The again through a charitable foundation. Relying purely on the kindness of Anne Frank Ambassador programme helped him explore the strangers, Zena has built a new life in England. She attends a church history of injustice, especially the horrors of and and a college where she has connected with the Ethiopian Community. this sprung him into action to do more to bring change for the Zena says she has encountered nothing but warmth and support from better to society. people in England.

The Anne Frank Trust Annual Lunch 2019 8 Chair of the Lunch Committee Farida 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 It has been an honour and a pleasure to be more for giving up their time to make our Lunch come to support the Anne Frank Trust, deeply involved with the Lunch Committee this to life. Thank you too to our Lunch Committee year. As an educator, I admire the work of the for making possible today’s event. Most of all who’s work help to empower many Trust enormously: I have seen it in action and I am very grateful for your generous donations, witnessed myself the real difference it makes without which, we cannot carry out our work. young people. to young people. I am pleased that today you Your contributions through tickets, adverts and will hear from some of those young people and sponsorships enable us here at the Anne Frank appreciate for yourself the value of this unique Trust to reach out to as many young people as charity’s work. possible, and plant seeds of hope, goodness and self-belief: an antidote to despair, wickedness and As we reflect on past horrors by remembering the self-doubt, and a recipe, surely, for a society free We wish you the best for the annual Holocaust, we think too about all the conflicts, from prejudice and discrimination. atrocities, acts of terror and violence committed Anne Frank Trust Lunch. around the world, by human beings against human I hope that you will come to join us again next year! 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,

The Anne Frank Trust Annual Lunch 2019 10 Chair of the Anne Frank Trust UK Daniel Mendoza

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.

We all have a stark choice to make – we either for good. The Anne Frank Trust is now recognised recognise what we are sleep walking into and take as the UK’s leading educational charity in tackling decisive action, or we just stand by, or look on and prejudice and discrimination. Our approach delivers pretend either we can’t do anything about it or measureable results. perhaps naively believe that it won’t affect us. The impact of our work, evidenced through rigorous For those that don’t know me I’m inclined to neither independent evaluation has gained us support from dramatics nor exaggeration. So please bear this in three different government departments as well as mind when I say we are engaged in a battle; a battle through partnerships with the Big Lottery and the of narratives that will define our and our younger Metropolitan Police among others. I thank them all generation's futures. And it’s too simplistic and lazy and you for your support that has enabled us to to classify that battle as “good versus evil” albeit deliver our programmes throughout the UK. framing it that way does allow one to reiterate the importance of taking action by evoking the never But the biggest test lies ahead: if we are ever more relevant Edmund Burke quote “The only thing to realise a society free from prejudice and necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to discrimination then we have to do more; we must do nothing”. increase our reach; we must educate and inspire a generation. The narrative we face is complex, nuanced and multi-dimensional. It is critical therefore that we You will meet some of our young ambassadors today equip our young people with the knowledge, tools – just imagine what we could achieve if we could and confidence not to stand by but to stand up, replicate our work in every school in the UK, consider to every form of prejudice, however it presents or the impact that would have upon all of society. Thank weaves itself into the fabric of the narrative. you for helping us in this undertaking at a time when our work has never been more needed. At our core is a different narrative: the powerful and engaging story of a teenage girl and her father’s Wishing you all a very happy, healthy and safe 2019. resolve that his daughter's diary should be a force

The Anne Frank Trust Annual Lunch 2019 12 Chief Executive of the The Reuben Foundation Anne Frank Trust UK Tim Robertson is proud to support

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

and wishes them a My exhilaration springs partly from the coming We are planning: together of two strands of my professional • Digital innovations to make our exhibitions and experience. Half of my career has been about workshops more interactive; tackling urgent social needs: I have worked in child protection social work; criminal justice; and • Specialist versions of our programmes targeted at successful Annual Lunch education in disadvantaged communities. potential perpetrators of prejudice and at bridging divided communities; The other half has been about the transformative • A speakers’ bureau of victims of hate crime, power of creativity – as chief executive of the trained and supported to add impact to our Koestler Trust for arts in prisons, and most recently existing workshops, and to take our message as director of the Royal Society of Literature. into businesses and independent schools.

I have arrived at the Anne Frank Trust to find a But our boldest ambition is to extend our young charity with exceptional evidence of social impact: ambassadors project into a national scheme the University of Kent’s research confirms that our with residential weekends and year-long creative education programmes result in significant change mentoring. We want young people to take the in young people’s openness to other groups. And lead in developing the charity, for instance through the basis of these programmes is the extraordinary a youth board, and to become high-profile media creative genius of Anne Frank. Through the writing spokespeople against discrimination, by telling their and posthumous publication of the Diary, Anne’s stories in their own way, as Anne Frank did hers. Jewish experience of the Holocaust has been taken to heart by a global audience, and at the Trust I Perhaps the greatest asset I have found at the Anne have seen again and again how this inspires young Frank Trust is the remarkable range and loyalty of its people of hugely different backgrounds to find their supporters, not least here at the annual lunch for voices and speak out against hatred. Holocaust Memorial Day. I know that it is through your generosity that we will be able to maintain the In consultation with trustees, staff and service work of this vital charity, widen its reach and deepen users, I am currently generating a strategy for the its impact in the future. I look forward greatly to Trust’s growth over the next three years. meeting and working with you.

The Anne Frank Trust Annual Lunch 2019 14 A message from Home Office Minister for Countering Extremism Baroness 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.

I am proud that the Government supports groups conference. For ones so young, their ability to and individuals across the country to challenge articulately bring their project to life to an audience extremism on the front-line, providing them with of over 300 people is highly commendable. the tools they need through the Building a Stronger Britain Together (BSBT) programme. The Anne Frank Trust is one of the key partners We need to break the momentum around hatred and within the BSBT programme, and I am so pleased intolerance, and the work that the Anne Frank Trust that we will renew this partnership afresh in the does in this regard is invaluable. coming year, with further project work. The 'History for Today, Voices for Tomorrow' project will further Over the last 12 months, the Trust has delivered empower young people to challenge and change a comprehensive series of work that has supported discriminatory attitudes, which are often the young people across the country in schools, building pre-cursor to extremism. up their resilience so that they can withstand the messages of hate that unfortunately permeate Tackling extremism is not something that the through today’s society. For a digital generation, Government can, or should, do on its own, so my I am so pleased that elements like Digital Literacy sincere thanks go out to the entire Anne Frank Trust will enable participants to understand existing family for their continued efforts in being part of dangers in the online world. something that will certainly make a real difference to people’s lives. I look forward to continuing I am proud to support a network as rich, diverse working closely with the Trust in future and wish you and resilient as the Anne Frank Ambassadors all the best on this extremely important day. 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

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A message from are delighted to support this event Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government James 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.

Home is not merely a dwelling. Home is a place of where people of all backgrounds and beliefs have a belonging. It is where we feel comfortable and welcome. stake and pride in the place that they live. The Anne Frank Trust, which uses Anne Frank’s The UK is a welcoming, well-integrated and tolerant words to inspire young people to stand up to society. However, challenges remain. In recent prejudice and hatred, reminds us just how powerful years we have seen increased reports of religiously the concept of home can be. motivated hate crime, intolerance and prejudice. For two long years, Anne Frank’s family and the Only last year, the Community Security Trust van Pels family attempted to make an Achterhuis a recorded 1,382 antisemitic incidents across the home. In her diary, Anne writes about missing her UK. This is the highest annual total on record. real home, and her desire to return to it, if only it On this I am unequivocal – hatred and intolerance was safe to do so. must find no place to flourish in any part of our society. Being torn from home is one of the traumas frequently This Government recognises that education is key inflicted on victims and survivors of genocide. This in tackling attitudes that underpin intolerance in theme has personal resonance for me. As a young our society. That is why we continue to support child, my father-in-law was forced to flee the vital work of the Anne Frank Trust. In schools and find a new home here in Britain. This year also across the country, the Trust works to empower marks the 25th anniversary of the Rwandan young people, giving them the skills and knowledge genocide, and the 40th anniversary of the end of necessary to challenge prejudice. the Cambodian genocide, both of which reinforce As we remember the bravery and resilience of the importance of learning from history in order to those who have been torn from their homes during eradicate hatred. It is essential that our society the Holocaust and in subsequent genocides, I am works together to ensure survivors of genocidal proud to stand alongside the Anne Frank Trust acts are able to rebuild their lives in safe, in their work to build a society in which everyone There is Art in Investment Agency supportive and resilient communities. This is a can feel safe – a society where everyone can feel core part of my mission as Communities Secretary comfortable making a home. – building stronger, more integrated communities t: 020 7486 7090 www.ereiramendoza.co.uk

The Anne Frank Trust Annual Lunch 2019 18 "We must listen to ourselves, and to each other" by Sophie Yaron, granddaughter of MBE, Anne Frank's Manufacturers of Quality Packaging posthumous step-sister

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.

At the age of six I started to verbalise my fears. It is ancestral suffering that lies behind my feeling My younger sister had started school and at break of being unwelcome. But I have come to realise that time I ran to her, crying, telling her that we were not many of us feel like imposters. We must understand welcome at school because we were Jews. that everyone is looking for home. I am not talking about home as a location, but about the home Why did I say that to my sister? Had I encountered inside of us: a place of acceptance – acceptance of antisemitism? No. And to this day, I can say that I our pain, and our authentic nature. have never experienced any (explicit) antisemitism in my life. As I sit here writing, appreciating Anne Frank’s wisdom and experiencing in myself the remnants However, human beings are connected to their past of the tragedies that she experienced, I look at this – ancestral trauma is present in our bodies even quote: “Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find if we are not aware. My grandmother, Eva Schloss, by experience that a quiet conscience makes one was taken to Auschwitz when she was 15 years old, strong!” and I feel she is talking about exactly this. where she and her mother survived the atrocities, We cannot truly love others, or fix suffering in the but lost her brother, father, and millions of other world, until we have found the ability to accept humans alongside them. After the war, my great ourselves. We must seek to find this ‘quiet grandmother met , Anne Frank’s father, conscience’ that Anne describes. and they married. They found Anne Frank’s diary. This book, these words, that the world knows so well. We must listen to ourselves and to each other.

The theme of this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day: If the world did more of this, there would surely be Torn from Home, resonates with me on a deep level. little conflict, for we would all respect ourselves and We are proud supporters of The Anne Frank Trust I speak German, I even feel German sometimes each other. – because after all, this is my heritage, even if we One of our founding directors, the late Sybilla Friedler, was in hiding on the Prinsengracht, were persecuted. Being torn from home means We are all on a journey back home. And that Amsterdam at the same time as Anne Frank. Fortunately she survived. The other 3 initial directors more than just losing your environment. It means home is already there, inside of us all, waiting for were also refugees from Nazi Europe. Our company now thrives in its 3rd generation. losing your education, language, friends, culture and us to return. your sense of home. [email protected] www.amipak.co.uk

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"Anne's eloquent writing offers hope for a future without prejudice" by Paula Fouce, Director of No Asylum JEFFREY and EDWARD AZOUZ 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 OF 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 A R & V GROUP film’s director.

No Asylum tells the story of how a great treasure Otto’s letters stopped abruptly. Two years later, the trove of history was lost in the mists of time for Franks were arrested by the Gestapo and deported 70 years, until recently. A volunteer was sorting to Auschwitz. Anne and Margot were transported to in the archives of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Bergen Belsen soon after and died of typhus. Major Research in New York, when she made a heart- Leonard Berney details how he and the British pounding discovery: in an old, torn manila envelope Army liberated Bergen Belsen mere days after Anne were the lost documents of Anne Frank’s father and Margot died. Otto, desperately trying to save his family from ARE PROUD TO BE ASSOCIATED In No Asylum, Anne's cousin, Buddy takes an the clutches of the Nazis. Otto’s letters reveal his emotional trip to Bergen Belsen. We accompanied heartbreaking failure to find a safe haven for his him to film it, and you could feel his deep sadness. daughters, Anne and Margot, and his wife Edith. WITH THIS WORTHY CAUSE After the war, Otto published Anne’s diary, whose They tell the unknown chapter of Anne Frank’s life. eloquent writings offer hope for a future without Our biggest challenge in producing the film was prejudice, and he dedicated the rest of his life to to make it pertinent to today’s young audience, spreading her message. Anne Frank is an icon of and so we incorporated modern scenes to courage for people everywhere. Today, even 70 engage them. years after her death, Anne’s words still ring true, In No Asylum, Anne Frank’s surviving family and young people everywhere are inspired by her members, and Eva Schloss relate spirit of tolerance and respect. the unknown story of the Frank family’s frantic The world turned its back on the Franks. The search for sanctuary. As the Nazi noose tightened Group universal message of “never again” has even AR&V throughout Europe, Otto Frank’s attempts for greater relevance today. No Asylum asks, when asylum were turned down. When the doors to other atrocities due to prejudice and discrimination countries closed, he turned to the US as their last occur: will society look away, or finally take action? 133 Hammersmith Road, London W14 0QL hope for refuge. To find out more visit NoAsylumFilm.com, and Otto Frank’s and the U.S. State Department’s 73 Telephone: 020 7603 7495 Fax: 020 7603 8259 follow No Asylum on Facebook. documents reveal the world’s failure to help the Jewish refugees. When the Franks went into hiding,

The Anne Frank Trust Annual Lunch 2019 22 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. It doesn’t start with acid In October 2018, Anne Frank We continued those conversations at school and at home. We told our friends and families about attacks, vandalism, protests Ambassador Janiz addressed what we were learning and doing at school. and explosions. It starts And they were proud of us. They too attended the with the seeds of hate being exhibition, saw photographs of us teaching, and the Home Office's Building told their friends also. planted and allowed to grow unchecked, unchallenged, We discussed and debated with a far wider circle unaddressed.” a Stronger Britain Together of people than the younger students we were tasked to teach, and in doing so, our own skills in – Janiz Djafer having those sensitive and challenging discussions Anne Frank Ambassador Conference in London. were developed further. And I hope that means that my generation is going to grow up to become Here is her speech: adults who are equipped with the skills and suggests that it isn’t a relevant topic for them, understanding to challenge all forms of prejudice or that it doesn’t happen in their schools, their and discrimination. organisation, their family, that if they don’t talk about it, how could they possibly know? Because it “Hello, my name is Janiz and I’m a Year 11 student. I am honoured to be asked I am sure you won’t be surprised to hear that to my doesn’t start with acid attacks, vandalism, protests friends and me, when we hear the word “extremism” to speak today as I think the issues that are being discussed here are very and explosions. It starts with the seeds of hate we think “Islamic extremism”. We think of everything being planted and allowed to grow unchecked, important and have a great deal of relevance to my – and my friends’ lives." we have seen on TV and read about. We think of unchallenged, unaddressed. how some media outlets portray women who wear a headscarf somehow as terrorists, and as a Young people sometimes need the opportunity to be Muslim myself, that hits home. "I was encouraged by one of my teachers to train to And why is this work important? Because prejudice involved to be presented to them, to be encouraged be an Anne Frank Ambassador. There is absolutely and discrimination are all too common. I see it, my to participate, and I am so grateful that I had that But there are a lot more types of extremism in the no way I would have done it had it not been for friends see it, my family and beyond see it. Racism, opportunity given to me. If it weren’t for that, I world than Islamic extremism, and what being an that encouragement. In years 7 and 8 I was quiet sexism, Islamophobia, antisemitism, homophobia, wouldn’t be here, expressing my views. I hope that, Anne Frank Ambassador has taught me is to think and extremely shy. I still am shy really, and I never ablism, agism, body shaming, mental health even in a very small way, I have helped to contribute more broadly, think in terms of all kinds of hate, and thought to put myself forward for things. I am very discrimination – the list goes on and on. something positive in the world, and that is what I how my friends and I might challenge it. grateful for the encouragement I received, that I was hope for the future, for all of us.” pushed out of my comfort zone, because in doing It is so important to talk about these things and to, And it’s not just the responsibility of young people. so, I found an ability and interest that I didn’t know I hopefully, teach people to be nicer to one another. It’s down to all of us. had. I found my voice. It’s not just important to young people. It’s important The Anne Frank Trust is a partner in the to all people. To those of you who may be wondering how you can BSBT network of over 160 organisations Throughout the training process we learnt the help get more young people involved in countering supported through the government's counter- material in order to teach and talk about the At school, Anne Frank Ambassadors held an evening extremism, I would ask you to consider what role extremism strategy to create more resilient exhibition knowledgeably. Critically, we learnt how to event where we showed parents, carers, staff and models we see. What leadership we see. What communities and stand up to extremism in talk about a difficult subject in a sensitive manner. friends of the school around the exhibition. It was compassion in our daily lives we see. Is our world all its forms. We learnt how we could be truthful and accurate but really positive for us to have those conversations flooded with narratives of hate? Do we see people also explain things in a way that was sensitive and with parents, siblings and friends. in positions of great power and influence advocating respectful. In fact, a parent who we had shown around the prejudice and discrimination? Do we see laws and decisions being enacted that will have great impact It meant a great deal to me. I felt happy and Anne Frank exhibition went to speak to our Head upon our lives and future that we have no voice in? proud that I was able to teach students about this at the end of the evening. She said she was so important topic. I am sure you will be able to see in happy to know that not only were students studying It’s not an easy topic. It’s not fun, but it needs to the faces of my peers that they too felt proud. And a this at school, but that she had the opportunity be talked about. And I would say to anyone who real sense of accomplishment. to learn about it also. She said that whilst she

The Anne Frank Trust Annual Lunch 2019 24 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, Scotland challenge and resist all forms of prejudice and discrimination. North East

The charity was founded in 1991 by family and starting with the delivery of our exhibition Anne friends of Otto Frank whose wish it had been Frank: A History for Today. Our approach is flexible North West for an educational organisation to be set up in and adaptable to suit the needs of individual his daughter's name here in the UK. Anne's schools, national curricula and local communities. inspirational message of equality and human rights for all continue to be fundamental in our work. Volunteer peer guides learn about Anne's story, Yorkshire and the history of the Holocaust and related themes Humberside We work with young people to deliver our core such as, prejudice, identity, stereotyping and What we do work through programmes in primary and human rights and go on to become Anne Frank secondary schools, in alternative provision Ambassadors. Our vision is a society safe from We operate across seven regions of the UK, settings, communities and in the criminal justice prejudice and discrimination. By continuing to working with tens of thousands of young West Midlands sector. Our methodology delivers short term encourage young people to speak out against people in schools via a variety of innovative East of England impact among participants and nurtures a legacy hatred, we are driving a positive narrative and and stimulating programmes. Our educational of longer term transformative social change, creating a safer society. work centres round an exhibition of Anne's life and diary, delivered alongside complementary workshops, peer education and an Ambassador programme. London 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 Anne Frank Trust Annual Lunch 2019 26 Our reach in 2018

55,260 WORKED IN WORKED IN PEOPLE ENGAGED WITH OUR WORK SECONDARY97 SCHOOLS PRIMARY52 SCHOOLS

STUDENTS 28,672 VISITED AN EXHIBITION 2,646 CHILDREN ATTENDED ATTENDED 8,995 12,396 A WORKSHOP A WORKSHOP VISITED A PUBLIC EXHIBITION

WORKED WITH 1,254 330 ATTENDED PEER GUIDES TRAINED 1,300 A WORKSHOP 261 OFFENDERS BECAME ANNE FRANK ANNE FRANK AMBASSADORS CREATED 476 AMBASSADORS

The Anne Frank Trust Annual Lunch 2019 28 Of the young people assessed following Our impact Anne Frank Trust programmes:

HAD MORE CONFIDENCE TO REPORT PREJUDICE 84% BASED BULLYING

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. KNEW MORE ABOUT THE HARM PREJUDICE To monitor the impact of our work in schools, 77% CAN CAUSE 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 It really changed my express their learning creatively: through assemblies, workshops, films, exhibitions and social media perspective on different types campaigns. of bullying and prejudice COULD BETTER EXPRESS against other people... I didn’t We have continued our partnership with the University THEIR VOICE IN THEIR of Kent whose academics conducted analysis of our realise how many different 73% LOCAL COMMUNITY work about attitudes towards others in a MA thesis types there are, so I’m really this year, which pointed to the strong positive impact of our work in terms of respect for difference and an more aware of it now.” increase in confidence. – Anne Frank Ambassador, We look forward to continuing to share more results Biddick Academy, Tyne and Wear of the impact of our programmes with our supporters in 2019.

The Anne Frank Trust Annual Lunch 2019 30 Become a benefactor 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 in Amsterdam • Your name listed in our annual lunch brochure, our annual review and on our website. (You may choose to remain What your support anonymous) helps us achieve • Regular updates on our work “If you care about British society... investing in the Anne Frank Trust UK Every day we are fulfilling our mission of using Anne Frank’s life and diary is just about the best way you could support that ongoing programme, to empower young people with the knowledge, skills and confidence to not just for today, but for future generations to come.” challenge all forms of prejudice and discrimination. Jack Morris CBE 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. Become a corporate supporter Support your local school or community through a corporate partnership with the Anne Frank Trust. Businesses gain:

“I learnt a lot during this process: • Alignment with our mission of giving young people the knowledge and tools to challenge not just about Anne’s story, prejudice and discrimination but about the way her legacy • Opportunities for your staff to volunteer and provide individual expertise to further our work has changed the world today – • Support for your local school or community with a positive educational experience and that no matter how old you • Opportunities to attend networking and other events are, or where you come from, • Positive PR opportunities through sponsoring a local award for young people you can make a difference.” • Your corporate brand on our materials

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

The Anne Frank Trust Annual Lunch 2019 32 Our benefactors

Daphne Schild Gerald Edelman Chartered Accountants Pardeep and Bim Sandhu Anne Baruch and Claude Green Candice and Lyall Cresswell Caroline and Justin Randall Milton Damerel Trust Jonathan and Jacqueline Gestetner Susan Tobbell Yaena and Gavin Boyle Rosemary and Walter Goldsmith Jennifer and Michael Whitman Joanna Myers and Peter Oppenheimer (GS GIVES) Valentina and Massimo Della Ragione Christian Rochat Linda and Harvey Rosenblatt The Rosemarie Nathanson Charitable Trust McGrath Charitable Trust Kirsh Foundation Benesco CS Global Partners The Bloom Foundation Regent Exhibitions Ltd The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation The Barbour Foundation Michelle and Daniel Mendoza Hugh Fraser Victoria and Edward Bonham Carter Judith Katzler and Geoffrey Jayson Sara and Adam Franks The Heathside Charitable Trust Amanda and Mark Gershinson The Hirschel Foundation Isabella and Natasha Tagliaferri The Humanitarian Trust Sybilla and Leo Friedler Charitable Trust The Vandervell Foundation The Harris Family Charitable Trust Stephen King The Ironmongers' Company We also gratefully acknowledge those benefactors The Morris Charitable Trust who wish to remain anonymous

Funders and supporters

The 29th May 1961 YBA Charitable Trust Foundation

The Toni Schiff Memorial Fund

The Anne Frank Trust Annual Lunch 2019 34 Our thanks Your generosity and support have greatly contributed to The Anne Frank Trust UK extend the success of today’s lunch grateful thanks to all our guests, table hosts, brochure advertisers, lunch committee and absent Thank you supporters. Thanks also go the Hilton on Park Lane for their continued support.

With special thanks to

Our Host Our Presenter Our Speaker Daphne Schild Jo Coburn James O’Brien

Our Anne Frank Ambassadors Yuri, Janiz and Shaan

Our Lunch Committee TPS Abbeydale Farida Mannan (Chair) Annie Kleiner are proud to support Carina Bauer Larissa Lockwood The Anne Frank Trust Lisa Digrandi Daniel Mendoza Christiane Elsenbach Valentina Pan Jacqueline Gestetner Pardeep Sandhu Marc Franks John Glasby Telephone: 020 8954 2403 [email protected]

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

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