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Anne Frank House Amsterdam: Anne's Secret Annex turned into Museum
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One of the most popular museums in Amsterdam, the Anne Frank House, attracts over 1.2 million visitors a year. A museum you should definitely see when you are in Amsterdam.
It was the hiding place during the Second World War of Anne Frank to escape deportation by the Nazis. Discover the secret annexe behind the revolving bookcase where Anne Frank, the 13-year old Jewish girl, her family and some friends lived for 2 years, and where she wrote her famous diaries.
Visit the cramped upstairs quarters in this canal house in Amsterdam
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Anne Frank House Amsterdam - Marko Kassenaar
Anne Frank House Amsterdam
Anne's Secret Annex turned into Museum
Marko Kassenaar
Contents
Introduction
The Frank family
The ‘Achterhuis’
Daily life in the secret annex
The betrayal
The diaries
Some facts and figures
History of the Anne Frank House
The Anne Frank tree
Location and address
Museums near the Anne Frank house
Further reading
Colophon
Introduction
The Anne Frank House on an early winter morning - photo by Dennis van de Water
The Anne Frank House is the most famous museum in Amsterdam and attracts over a million visitors a year. A visit to the Anne Frank House, the house on Prinsengracht in Amsterdam where Anne and her family went into hiding during the Second World War, will undoubtedly have a profound emotional impact on you. The story of a young Jewish girl growing up under dangerous circumstances and writing down
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