Community fundraiser  ·  Gorham, Maine

Anne Frank: A History for Today Coming to Gorham Middle School — and the students are the guides.

The exhibit “invites students to explore the history of the Holocaust through Anne's life while reflecting on the choices we make day to day.”

On view
September 24 – October 9, 2026Public hours announced on the district and school websites
Location
Gorham Middle School auditoriumGorham, Maine
Curated by
The Anne Frank House, AmsterdamBrought to North America by the Anne Frank Center at the University of South Carolina, the Anne Frank House's official partner
Guides
Twenty Gorham eighth gradersTrained over two days by Anne Frank House educators
Project lead
Heather Whitaker, Alternative Education Teacher2020 Maine Teacher of the Year · 2023 National Lowell Milken Fellow

Twenty Gorham eighth graders will spend two full days training with educators from the Anne Frank House. Then they will stand in their own school auditorium and lead their classmates, their families, and their neighbors through the exhibit — in their own words.

Most students meet this history in a textbook. These students will be the ones telling it. For everyone else in town, it means walking through an Anne Frank House exhibit without leaving Gorham, guided by kids who live here.

“Bringing the Anne Frank exhibit to Gorham Middle School is a gift to our entire community. … It's a powerful chance for my alternative education students plus peers in the eighth grade to pour their hearts into a deeply moving experience, and for our whole community to walk through history guided by our own kids.”

Heather Whitaker
Alternative Education Teacher, Gorham Middle School

What it takes to bring it here

Bringing the exhibit to Gorham Middle School and paying for the accompanying curriculum costs $3,750. That is the entire ask — no overhead, no staff, no organization taking a cut. Demetria Real Estate covers every payment processing fee, so the full amount of each contribution reaches the project.

$2,250 Still needed
$1,500 committed of $3,750
40% committed As of September 10, 2026

Two ways to give

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Any amount is welcome. Contributions are collected by Demetria Real Estate and transferred to the Gorham School Department for the exhibit.

Give by card

Card contributions are not tax-deductible charitable gifts. If you would like a charitable receipt, please use the check option below instead. Your card statement will show DEMETRIA REAL ESTATE.

By check Receipt available

The Gorham School Department will issue a charitable donation receipt for contributions made by check.

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Gorham School Department
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If we raise more than we need

The Gorham School Department has approved directing any amount above the exhibit cost to student-support purposes, with priority given to Alternative Education programming and the Gorham Middle School BackPack Program.

Schedule a group tour

Heather Whitaker
Gorham Middle School
heather.whitaker@gorhamschools.org

Questions about giving

Aaron Chadbourne
Demetria Real Estate
207-329-0915
aaron@godemetria.com

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