the mouschi project
multimedia
The Mouschi Project is a multimedia initiative inspired by Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl and the Penguin Random House / Philomel picture book The Cat Who Lived with Anne Frank.
Named for Mouschi, the real-life cat who lived with Anne in the Secret Annex, The Mouschi Project uses performance art and discussion-based media to introduce all ages to Anne Frank’s story, while supporting audiences in recognizing and confronting fascism, racism, antisemitism, bullying, genocide, and violence.
Across events, educational programs, and media development, The Mouschi Project fosters social justice and cultural understanding through storytelling. Its aim is to promote peace and tolerance while creating accessible entry points into history that encourage dialogue.
public programs
The Mouschi Project launched at a sold-out International Holocaust Remembrance Day event at the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance in 2019. Since its launch, it has been presented in schools, libraries, museums, bookstores, senior centers, and places of worship.
Programs have included venues such as the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum, the Holocaust Museum LA, and the Reagan Library’s Auschwitz exhibition. Readings of The Cat Who Lived with Anne Frank at these events have featured actors like Zoe-Lister Jones and Jonathan Lipnicki, along with Millie Perkins and Diane Baker, the stars of the Academy Award-winning George Stevens feature The Diary of Anne Frank.
Each program is designed as a gentle introduction to one of the darkest times in modern history, often including facilitated discussion and participation from educators, community members and, when available, Holocaust survivors and descendants of survivors. These gatherings frequently become intergenerational exchanges shaped by memory, testimony, and lived history.
The Mouschi Project includes multimedia presentations and age-appropriate study guides designed to support classroom and community learning. These materials are tailored to ensure age appropriateness and are used to introduce Holocaust history through accessible storytelling, while supporting deeper study, reading, and discussion.
animated feature
Regenerate Films is developing an animated feature inspired by David Lee Miller and Steven Jay Rubin’s Penguin Random House / Philomel picture bookThe Cat Who Lived with Anne Frank. While the book is historically accurate and grounded in Anne Frank’s life in WWII Amsterdam, the film is historical fiction – reimagining Mouschi as a Dutch resistance fighter in an animal world.
The animated feature’s goal is to engage audiences through an action-adventure narrative in the tradition of films like The Lion King and The Prince of Egypt, while exploring themes of courage, resistance, and moral responsibility.
If you’d like to be involved in the development of the feature or The Mouschi Project, please contact us.
