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Four months later, they were joined by an eighth person: Fritz Pfeffer, an acquaintance of the Frank family. 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.
- Anne Frank
Anne Frank Collection; Web and digital; Frequently Asked...
- The History of The Secret Annex
The building was restored, and the Anne Frank House opened...
- Prinsengracht 263
Anne and the others went into hiding at Prinsengracht 263,...
- How Unique Was The Secret Annex? People in Hiding in The Occupied Netherlands
Jaap Cohen “Going into hiding.” When they hear this phrase...
- The Main Characters
During WWII, Anne Frank's family hid in the Secret Annex for...
- The Diary
Anne didn’t just keep a diary. She also wrote tales and...
- The Warehouse
‘During the day we always have to walk quietly and speak...
- Front Attic
The front attic: the observation post of the Secret Annex....
- Video Diary Series
In search of a new way of telling Anne Frank’s life story to...
- Front Office
The helpers divide the work. The office staff shared the...
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The building was restored, and the Anne Frank House opened to the public on 3 May 1960. Otto Frank in the attic of the Secret Annex on 3 May 1960, the day the Anne Frank House opens to the public. According to photographer Arnold Newman, Otto was very emotional.
- Who Was Anne Frank?
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Anne Frank was born Annelies Marie Frank in Frankfurt, Germany, on June 12, 1929, to Edith Hollander Frank (1900-45) and Otto Frank (1889-1980), a prosperous businessman. Less than four years later, in January 1933, Adolf Hitlerbecame chancellor of Germany and he and his Nazi government instituted a series of measures aimed at persecuting Germany’s...
Margot Frank received a letter ordering her to report to a work camp in Germany in July 1942. Anne Frank’s family went into hiding in an attic apartment behind Otto Frank’s business, located at Prinsengracht 263 in Amsterdam, on July 6, 1942. In an effort to avoid detection, the family left a false trail suggesting they’d fled to Switzerland. A wee...
On August 4, 1944, after 25 months in hiding, Anne Frank and the seven others in the Secret Annex were discovered by the Gestapo, the German secret state police, who had learned about the hiding place from an anonymous tipster (who has never been definitively identified). After their arrest, the Franks, Van Pels and Fritz Pfeffer were sent by the G...
When Otto Frank returned to Amsterdam following his release from Auschwitz, Miep Gies gave him five notebooks and some 300 loose papers containing Anne’s writings. Gies had recovered the materials from the Secret Annex shortly after the Franks’ arrest by the Nazis and had hidden them in her desk. (Margot Frank also kept a diary, but it was never fo...
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” “I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.” “Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The go...
When Anne Frank and her family went into hiding on Monday, July 6, 1942, they had no idea that they would stay there without going outside once for two years.
Nov 24, 2009 · 15-year-old Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family are captured hiding in an Amsterdam warehouse. The Franks had taken shelter there in 1942 out of fear of deportation to a Nazi concentration...
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The front attic: the observation post of the Secret Annex. Air alarms, aerial battles, bombings: the people in hiding followed it all with trepidation, because they had nowhere to go if things went wrong. Peter used the attic as an observation post and Anne would sometimes stay there, too.
Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (German: [ˈanə(liːs maˈʁiː) ˈfʁaŋk] ⓘ, Dutch: [ˌɑnəˈlis maːˈri ˈfrɑŋk, ˈɑnə ˈfrɑŋk] ⓘ; 12 June 1929 – c. February or March 1945) [1] was a German-born Jewish girl who kept a diary documenting her life in hiding amid Nazi persecution during the German occupation of the Netherlands.
