No Asylum — The Anne Frank Family’s Dreams of America

Anne Frank’s father Otto’s recently discovered letters at New York’s YIVO archives reveal new information about the family’s struggle to obtain visas to save themselves from the clutches of the Nazis. The film No Asylum: The Untold Chapter of Anne Frank’s Story shares unknown details of the Frank family’s story before they went into hiding in the attic, and is a call to action for tolerance and respect.

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VIEW THE TRAILER

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THE SCHEDULE

⇒ October 24-27, watch the film No Asylum: The Untold Chapter of Anne Frank’s Story on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register.

⇒ Sunday, October 26 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register.

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MEET THE SPEAKERS

Paula Fouce is a critically acclaimed author and filmmaker whose films include Not in God’s Name: In Search of Tolerance with the Dalai Lama, Song of the Dunes: Search for the Original Gypsies, Naked in Ashes; Origins of Yoga and No Asylum: The Untold Chapter of Anne Frank’s Story, created together with YIVO, which screened at the United Nations in Geneva. Her book, Not In God’s Name: Making Sense Of Religious Conflict, outlines solutions to religious based violence. It includes interviews with Mother Teresa, the Dalai Lama and many faith leaders, and visits to madrassas.

Jonathan Brent is a historian, publisher, translator, writer, and teacher. In 2009, he became Executive Director and CEO of The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research where he initiated The Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collection Project, an international project to conserve and digitize all of YIVO’s pre-World War II collections in New York City and Vilnius, Lithuania. In 2018, he initiated the development of the YIVO Digital Museum of East European and Russian Jewish Life. In 2019 he received the Cross of the Knight of the Order for Merits to Lithuania by the President of the Republic of Lithuania in recognition of his work in promoting cooperation between Lithuania and YIVO and for the preservation of the prewar Jewish archives of Lithuania.

Sharon Douglas, moderator, is the former CEO of the Anne Frank Center USA and is a Board member of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. In 1999, she was a member of the delegation to the United Nations for the Anne Frank Declaration of Peace and has for the past two decades represented the Anne Frank Center at numerous events in England and the Netherlands. A former long-standing board member of the Anne Frank Center USA, Sharon also served as the Secretary of the Board, and, with her husband Preston Douglas, was the 2016 winner of the Spirit of Anne Frank Distinguished Advocates Award. Sharon holds a BA from Mills College of Education, with graduate study at Queens College and St. John’s University.

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Registration for this program is closed.

This program is co-presented with the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.