New York City's Center for Jewish History is hosting an Anne Frank exhibit that recreates the rooms she and her family hid in during World War II and the Holocaust.

And yet, for all that, Anne Frank remains something of an abstraction, especially for the many who have never trekked to Amsterdam and the Anne Frank House museum, which houses hundreds of artifacts and personal items of the Frank family. It also contains the infamous secret annex hidden behind a bookcase, which has been carefully preserved.

With antisemitism on the rise in the U.S., a powerful new exhibit is scheduled to open here in New York on International Holocaust Remembrance Day in two weeks. For the first time in this country, visitors will be able to visit a full-scale recreation of the annex where Anne Frank and

The children seem like typical kindergartners: Some beam at the camera; some glance coyly aside; others appear lost in reverie. One slim, dark-haired girl in a pale dress looks precociously serious. She is Anne Frank,

But the ones on display at the Center for Jewish History near Union Square are special — because they come from the cramped attic apartment in Amsterdam where Anne Frank, her family, and another four Jews famously hid from the Nazis for two years before being discovered and deported to concentration camps,