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How unique was the Secret Annex? People in hiding in the occupied Netherlands. Take a look around and explore the Secret Annex where Anne Frank was in hiding for more than two years during World War II, and where she wrote her diary.
- Toilet
As soon as the warehouse staff went home for lunch, the...
- Front Attic
The people in hiding were terrified when there were aerial...
- The Company Office
The office staff worked on the first floor of the main...
- Otto's Private Office
During the hiding period, all business meetings took place...
- The Warehouse
‘During the day we always have to walk quietly and speak...
- Anne Frank House
What was the daily routine of the people hiding in the...
- Toilet
During the war, there were between 300,000 and 330,000 people in hiding in the Netherlands. This included 28,000 Jews. This may not be very many in relation to the total number of people who were hiding, but as a percentage of the Jewish community of 140,000 people it was a substantial number.
- The Physical Environment of The People in Hiding
- Behind The Bookcase
- Outside The Secret Annex
According to current views, the annex without a capital letter is the designation for the building part that was built in 1739 behind the front house dating from 1635. The building is a mishmash of rooms, corridors and stairs in which the uninitiated can quickly lose track. The capitalized 'Secret Annex' specifically refers to the top two floors, a...
The bookcase was placed in front of the entrance to the Secret Annex in August 1942, because Victor Kugler feared searches for hidden bicycles. That was not a complete exaggeration: the requisition of bicycles by the Wehrmacht was then just beginning. Hauptdienstleiter Schmidt said about this in a speech: 'They [the reluctant Dutch] should not imag...
The private office, the office kitchen and the (large) toilet were located in the annex, but not in the Secret Annex. Regular work was required on the drain and water pipes, and the arrival of the plumber forced silence in the Secret Annex again. The people in hiding used the kitchen partly because it was equipped with a geyser and a small stove. T...
Jan 27, 2022 · Anne was just one of six million Jews murdered by the Nazis between 1939 and 1945; just one of the estimated three-quarters of Dutch Jews who perished in concentration and death camps; and just one...
May 12, 2017 · Some 140,000 Jews lived in the Netherlands, and the geography made it difficult to flee. Reichskommissar Arthur Seyss-Inquart ran the new civil administration and, at the start, many hoped that...
Jun 12, 2017 · For two years, she and seven others lived in a "Secret Annex" in Amsterdam before being discovered and sent to concentration camps. Anne died in the Bergen-Belsen camp in 1945. Frank's father...
