Project Shakespeare will stage “The Diary of Anne Frank” on Saturday, March 8, at 6 p.m. and Sunday, March 9, at 4 p.m. at the First Congregational Church, 6 Payson Hill Road, Rindge. Deborah Shakespeare Thurber will direct.

The play, written by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett and adapted from “The Diary of Anne Frank – The Revised Critical Edition,” tells the true story of a Jewish girl and her family hiding from the Nazis in a secret annex in Amsterdam during World War II.

Following the March 9 performance, Holocaust survivor Kati Preston, author of “Holocaust to Healing: Closing the Circle,” will speak at 5:30 p.m. Preston was born at the start of World War II in Transylvania to a Hungarian Catholic mother and a Jewish father. Her family was killed in Auschwitz, but she survived after being hidden in a barn by a young peasant woman.

Preston later worked as a journalist in Israel and as a fashion designer in New York, Lisbon, Milan and London, where she ran a fashion business. She now speaks at schools, colleges and other venues about her experiences and the importance of tolerance.

These performances are part of Project Shakespeare’s One Play in One Week program, in which homeschool, public and private school students rehearse, stage and perform a play over winter break.

The cast includes Eleanora Kishinevsky as Anne Frank, Corbin Sanders as Otto Frank, Leila Burk as Edith Frank, Elise Nicklin as Margot Frank, Margaret Bennett as Miep Gies, Lachlan Linn-Boggs as Peter van Daan, Jem Russell as Mr. van Daan, Tess Geana as Mrs. van Daan, Henry McDonald as Mr. Kraler and Harold McCarthy as Mr. Dussell. The Anne Ensemble features Miranda Pipitone, Lillianna Helsel, Abigail McKibben, Amelia Rosbach and Emmy Ratcliffe.

Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students 16 and under. Project Shakespeare is a nonprofit theater education company. For information, visit projectshakespeare.org.