Opening Hours:
Wednesday - Sunday 10:30am - 3:30pm
9-11 Lambie Street, Cooma NSW
(02) 6452 3377
The Raglan Gallery acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land: the Ngarigo, Walgalu, Southern Ngunnawal and Bidawal Peoples. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging.
Immerse yourself in our beautiful historic building and gardens. Feed your soul with exhibitions from both local and visiting artists. Take home a piece of art or choose a fabulous item from our Gallery shop.
Tillers Gallery "Let Me Be Myself" The Life Story of Anne Frank
Anne Frank is a Jewish girl who goes into hiding during the Second World War in order to escape the Nazis.
Time & Location
16 Aug 2023, 11:30 am – 03 Sept 2023, 3:30 pm
Cooma, Unit 9/11 Lambie St, Cooma NSW 2630, Australia
About the event
Together with her father (Otto), her mother (Edith), her sister (Margot) and four others, she goes into hiding in the annex to her father's business premises. She is only thirteen at the time. During her stay in the annex, Anne writes in her diary and gradually turns into a talented writer. For 671 days, the people in the annex remain hidden, with the help from Otto's employees. They they are betrayed and deported to various concentration camps. In February 1945, shortly before the liberation, Anne dies in camp Bergen-Belsen. She is fifteen years old. Otto Grank is the only from the annex to survive the wae and to return to Amsterdam. He has Anne's diary published, and it strikes a chord in people all over the world.