Anne Frank House exhibition from Jan 28-Feb 1

The story of the teenaged Jewish girl who kept a diary of her life in hiding during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands during World War II has fascinated readers for decades. Just like ‘The Diary of a Young Girl’, the Anne Frank House exhibition has kept her memory alive, having travelled to 80 countries. Today this exhibition is in Sri Lanka. “We are generally invited by those interested in having the exhibition displayed in their countries,” Loes Singels of the Anne Frank House explains. Following a request from Ambassador of Sri Lanka to The Hague, Buddhi Athauda, and with the Embassy of the Netherlands in Colombo funding the exhibition here, it became a reality. The exhibition “Anne Frank- A History for Today” will be held at the Goethe Institute from January 28- February 1. Entrance is free.   Read more on the exhibition here Quotes from Anne Frank's Diary   "Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year old school girl. Oh well, it doesn’t matter. I feel like writing."   "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."   "I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage."   "We aren’t allowed to have any opinions. People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but it doesn’t stop you having your own opinion. Even if people are still very young, they shouldn’t be prevented from saying what they think."   "Women should be respected as well! Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn’t women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?"   "Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!"   "It’s difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart."   "What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again."   "I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains."   "Whoever is happy will make others happy too.