Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect
 |
|
| Named after | Anne Frank |
|---|---|
| Purpose | Social justice organization |
| Headquarters | 1325 6th Ave., 28th floor New York, NY 10019 |
| Location | |
|
Executive Director
|
Steven Goldstein |
| Chair, Peter Rapaport | |
|
Revenue
|
$698,611 (2014) |
| Expenses | $849,836 (2014) |
|
Staff
|
9 |
| Website | annefrank |
|
Formerly called
|
Anne Frank Center USA |
The Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect is a nonprofit organization with a focus on civil and human rights activism in the United States.
The group's advocates "for the kinder and fairer world of which Anne Frank dreamed." It has been vocally critical of the Donald Trump Administration. While it speaks out against antisemitism, it also criticizes what it sees as sexism, racism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, and other issues.
The Center is neither a Jewish organization nor a Holocaust organization It is headquartered in New York City and its executive director is political activist Steven Goldstein, known for his advocacy of LGBT rights as founder of Garden State Equality.
The organization was originally known as the American Friends of the Anne Frank Center, and later the Anne Frank Center USA. It is described by its chairman Peter Rapaport as neither a Jewish nor a Holocaust organization.
From 2011 to 2016 the center had a small public gallery in lower Manhattan. In 2016, the board of directors brought in Goldstein as executive director. At the same time, its name was changed to add "mutual respect," and its mission was changed to include an emphasis on “exposing and fighting hate.” The Center continues to put on traveling exhibits throughout the United States. The group opened an office in Los Angeles in 2017.
The center received significant press attention in early 2017 due to its criticism of the Trump administration. The Anne Frank Center has been described as "one of the loudest voices in the #resistance [sic] to Trump."
According to the Center, it originated as an affiliate of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. It is not currently affiliated with either the House or the Anne Frank Fonds in Basel, Switzerland. It has claimed on its website that it was founded in 1959 with Anne's father Otto Frank as one of its founders. That was disputed by The Atlantic, which reported in a April 2017 profile of the group that past staffers and documentation indicate it was actually started in 1977, with no involvement by Otto Frank. After the Atlantic article appeared, it claimed that a document from 1959 shows that Otto Frank gave permission to use of his name in fundraising literature for the Anne Frank Foundation Inc. in the United States and Amsterdam, and that he was listed as president of the Foundation.
...
Wikipedia