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Quote of the month
21st August 1942
Now our Secret Annexe has truly become secret.... Mr Kugler thought it would be better to have a bookcase built in front of the entrance to our hiding place. It swings out on its hinges and opens like a door.
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Prisoners build a scale model of Anne Frank’s hiding place
Talented prisoners at HMP Wakefield have created a scale model of the secret hiding place of the Frank family. This will go with the Anne Frank exhibition as it continues its tour of prisons. The prisoners also built an exterior model of the Anne Frank House as a new collection box for the Anne Frank Trust. The prisoners took this 3 month project on after seeing the travelling Anne Frank exhibition, which went into Wakefield Prison in 2007.
Nicholas a Prisoner at HMP Wakefield, explains how he felt about working on the model:
The model was for me a great pleasure to paint, the co-ordinated colouring of the rooms was a challenging experience considering the limited materials I had to hand. Still perseverance paid off, and the multicolour model was born – it was not the creation as a whole but what it represented – I am truly glad that my efforts, and those of others, will serve a purpose to enlighten the unaware.