Where did Anne Frank live? Take a virtual tour
Apr 28, 2010
AMSTERDAM (Reuters Life!) – The museum that includes the house where Anne Frank hid and wrote her diary during the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam is launching an online virtual tour of the secret rooms.
For two years, Anne Frank, her family and other Jews hid in a cramped clutch of rooms tucked into the back of a canal house in Amsterdam.
Anne, who died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945 but lived on through her famous diary, described in poignant detail what life was like hiding from the German secret police during the Nazi occupation.
"Not being able to go outside upsets me more than I can say, and I'm terrified our hiding place will be discovered and that we'll be shot," Anne wrote in her diary.
Now, 50 years after the opening of the Anne Frank House museum, which has more than 1 million visitors every year, the museum is launching an online virtual tour of what life was like at the back of 263 Prinsengracht in Amsterdam. http://www.annefrank.org/content.asp?PID=908&LID=2
The tour captures in graphic detail photographs on the wall, the print on the bedspreads and tiny kitchen in the cramped space where eight people lived in daily fear of being caught.
A tip-off from an informant, led to the arrest of Anne, her sister, parents and the others living in the house in August of 1944.
Otto Frank, Anne's father, was the only one of the family to survive and posthumously published his daughter's diary.
Earlier this year, Miep Gies, the last survivor of a group of people who helped the family hide, died at age 100.
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Where did Anne Frank live? Take a virtual tour
Dutch queen unveils room for Anne Frank diary collection
Dutch queen unveils room for Anne Frank diary collection
28 Apr 2010
Amsterdam - The famous diary entries of Anne Frank are back where the Jewish girl once penned them - the Dutch house where her family hid from the Nazis, in a special room unveiled by Queen Beatrix on Wednesday to mark the museum's 50th anniversary.
All of her original musings can now be read by visitors to the Anne Frank House at Prinsengracht 263, near Amsterdam's Westerkerk church.
The Frank family hid in the home along with other German Jews in 1942, after fleeing from Germany to the Netherlands. They were betrayed and arrested in 1944.
Only Anne's father, Otto Frank, survived the Nazi concentration camps. He later published his daughter's writings, which became world-famous and were translated into numerous languages.
The widely known red and white checkered notebook in which Anne recorded her thoughts, worries and experiences - which many consider to be the actual diary - had been exhibited at the Anne Frank House for years.
But the young girl also left behind many other written documents, including notebooks and hundreds of loose pages.
They had previously been stored at the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD), where they were evaluated for academic and publication purposes. The institute recently handed over the documents to the Anne Frank Foundation for inclusion in the museum.
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28 Apr 2010
Amsterdam - The famous diary entries of Anne Frank are back where the Jewish girl once penned them - the Dutch house where her family hid from the Nazis, in a special room unveiled by Queen Beatrix on Wednesday to mark the museum's 50th anniversary.
All of her original musings can now be read by visitors to the Anne Frank House at Prinsengracht 263, near Amsterdam's Westerkerk church.
The Frank family hid in the home along with other German Jews in 1942, after fleeing from Germany to the Netherlands. They were betrayed and arrested in 1944.
Only Anne's father, Otto Frank, survived the Nazi concentration camps. He later published his daughter's writings, which became world-famous and were translated into numerous languages.
The widely known red and white checkered notebook in which Anne recorded her thoughts, worries and experiences - which many consider to be the actual diary - had been exhibited at the Anne Frank House for years.
But the young girl also left behind many other written documents, including notebooks and hundreds of loose pages.
They had previously been stored at the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD), where they were evaluated for academic and publication purposes. The institute recently handed over the documents to the Anne Frank Foundation for inclusion in the museum.
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the lines are always bad, especially midday.
They open at 0900, and offer online ticket sales. If you get there then, you won't have any issues.
As well when finished, climbing the Westerkerk next door for 8e is a treat. Tours for 8 leave every half an hour, and you get some great views of the Jordaan.
They open at 0900, and offer online ticket sales. If you get there then, you won't have any issues.
As well when finished, climbing the Westerkerk next door for 8e is a treat. Tours for 8 leave every half an hour, and you get some great views of the Jordaan.
