Skirball Cultural Center

Anne Frank put a human face on the horrors of the Holocaust, thanks to the gift of an autograph book she received for her 13th birthday on June 12, 1942. It was just a month before her Jewish family went into hiding from the Nazis in rooms in her father Otto Frank's office building. Until they were betrayed to the Nazis, arrested and sent to concentration camps in 1944, Anne Frank skillfully wrote, in the red-and-green-plaid cloth book with a small lock, about her life in the attic.

Holy zombies, Batman! The Skirball Cultural Center is closing its "ZAP! POW! BAM! The Superhero: The Golden Age of Comic Books, 1938-1950" exhibition Sunday with a screening of the 1943 "Batman" serial. The 260-minute, 15-chapter serial finds Batman and Robin attempting to rid Gotham City of a World War II Japanese spy ring. With each thrilling chapter, they encounter -- and foil -- zombies, alligators and even radium guns. That's the good news. The bad news is that the "Batman" serial is racist.