This was a neat project to be able to create a logo for.  The Danville Museum contacted us to design a logo for the display of the pen pal letters that were exchanged between Anne and Margo Frank of Netherlands and Juanita and Betty Wagner of Danville, Iowa.  This logo was also used on shirts and other items available for purchase at the museum.  Exchanged before going into hiding, these letters are a brief but insightful view on their lives before World War II.  Below is an article that was printed in Burlington’s Hawkeye newspaper regarding the letters.

The article:

DANVILLE EXHIBIT FEATURES PEN PAL LETTERS TO FRANK SISTERS

DANVILLE, IA — A display of letters exchanged between Anne Frank and former Danville students Juanita and Betty Wagner is housed in the Danville Museum.  Juanita randomly chose Anne Frank as a pen pal for a school project in 1939, and her sister subsequently decided to write Margo Frank(Anne’s older sister).  Since the Danville sisters wrote their letters in English, Otto Frank (Anne and Margot’s father) translated the letters for his daughters, then rewrote their replies in English so the Wagner girls could read them.  While the Jewish sisters later died in a concentration camp, Otto survived and wrote a letter to the Danville girls informing them of his daughter’s deaths.  The original letters are in the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles (an international center for Holocaust remembrance), copies are at the Danville Museum.  The local exhibit also features a video of Betty Wagner talking about the pen pal exchange.  Anne Frank became internationally famous following her death when her father discovered Anne’s diary and brought it to publication.  The diary, which was given to Anne on her 13th birthday, chronicles her life from June 12, 1942, until August 1, 1944.  The diary was first published in English in 1952 as “The Diary of a Young Girl.”

– The Hawk Eye Newspaper –  Burlington, Iowa

http://www.thehawkeye.com/story/Anne-Frank-031810-sidebar