Near the Boise Public Library and the Greenbelt, you find a quiet .81-acre park built around a single bronze figure of a young girl. The centerpiece is a statue of Anne Frank, set within a memorial jointly maintained by the Wassmuth Center for Human Rights and the Boise Department of Parks and Recreation. This is the only Anne Frank memorial in the U.S. Designed by Idaho Falls architect Kurt Karst, the site includes a sapling of the Anne Frank Tree and quotations from some sixty notables and unknowns — poets, activists, politicians and diplomats, those who survived the Holocaust and those who did not.
It’s one of the few places where the full text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is on permanent public display, and the memorial has been recognized and accepted by the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience. The park was thoroughly renovated in September 2018, when an outdoor classroom and a new sculpture, "The Spiral of Injustice," were added. Museum researcher Brigitte Sion has observed that in using Anne Frank as a symbol for universal and parochial issues, the memorial offers a sanitized version of Anne.
Notice the statue, the sixty quotations, the young sapling, and the outdoor classroom and sculpture waiting just beyond.