Anne Frank House (Amsterdam)

Netherlands / Noord-Holland / Amsterdam / Prinsengracht, 263
 museum, Second World War 1939-1945, place with historical importance, Holocaust, interesting place
Prinsengracht 267 (1016 GV)
PO Box 730, 1000 AS Amsterdam, Netherlands
020 5567105
www.annefrank.org/content.asp?pid=1&lid=2

For more than two years Anne Frank and her family lived in the annex of the building at Prinsengracht 263 where Anne’s father, Otto Frank, also had his business. The Van Pels family and Fritz Pfeffer hid there with them. The doorway to the annex was concealed behind a moveable bookcase constructed especially for this purpose. The office personnel knew of the hiding place and helped the eight people by supplying them with food and news of the outside world. On August 4, 1944, the hiding place was betrayed. The people in hiding were deported to various concentration camps. Only Otto Frank survived the war. Nowadays, the rooms at the Anne Frank House, though empty, still breathe the atmosphere of that period of time. Quotations from the diary, historical documents, photographs, film images, and original objects that belonged to those in hiding and the helpers illustrate the events that took place here.
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Frank_House
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Coordinates:   52°22'30"N   4°53'3"E

Comments

  • Anne and her family lived unther the square red roof in the upper right cornder of the selection frame. her window is clearly visible just outside the frame. The big tree in the garden has been ill for some years now and decision is made to replace it with a sprout of the old tree. This tree has been quite often been refered to by Anne in her diary.
  • Every time I read her diary,her philosophy & her ultimate plight moves me. Thanx to wikimapia, I can see where she lived. A few more months and she would have been safe!