Bonus March Field Trip

On March 12th from 11:30  - 2:00 we will be joining 7th grade for a bonus field trip that was not available to them last year but we feel is important for them to see .

The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education is hosting a special Anne Frank traveling exhibit. 

From their website: 
Between 1942 and 1944, Anne Frank [born 1929]  hid with her family in an attic in Amsterdam, writing daily in her diary. She did not survive the war and died of typhus in a concentration camp. Anne Frank: A History for Today depicts Anne Frank’s brief life story, abundantly illustrated with family photos and passages from her diary. Her biographical narrative is enhanced by testimony from Holocaust survivors and helpers. Historical context supplements the story through documents and photographs detailing the rise of Nazi power in Germany and the tumultuous events of the Second World War and the Holocaust that followed. 

The exhibit goes beyond the Anne Frank story and encourages the viewer to consider fundamental social values – tolerance, mutual respect, human rights, and democracy – as a way to educate the viewer about our individual and collective responsibilities to understand and respect diversity in our contemporary society. 

A small exhibit of pastel drawings by the painter Henk Pander, called Hiding, will also be on view. These rarely displayed works depict Pander's childhood in Haarlem, barely ten miles from Anne Frank's hiding place.

We will leave school at 11:30 and return by 2:00. Students will need to bring a sack lunch and regular uniforms will be worn. 

I will need a few chaperones, please let me know if you can attend!