The Anne Frank House is a museum on Amsterdam’s Prinsengracht, built around the hiding place where Anne Frank wrote much of her diary. From 1942 to 1944, Anne, her family and four others lived in the Secret Annex behind her father’s business premises, concealed from Nazi persecution. They were discovered and deported; Anne died at Bergen-Belsen in 1945.
A visit leads through the former warehouse and past the movable bookcase that concealed the entrance to the annex. The rooms remain unfurnished at the request of Anne’s father, Otto Frank, the only one of the eight to survive the Holocaust. Her original diary and other documents connect the intimate details of life in hiding with the wider history of the persecution of Jews during the Second World War.
Book tickets online through the museum’s official website well in advance and arrive for your chosen time slot. The historic building has steep stairs, and the Secret Annex is not wheelchair accessible; check the museum’s accessibility information before visiting.