Anne Frank House

The Canal House Where Anne Frank And Seven Others Hid From 1942 To 1944, With The Secret Annex And Her Diary; Museum Since 1960 · Amsterdam, North Holland

The Anne Frank House is the canal house on the Prinsengracht where Anne Frank, her parents and sister, the van Pels family and Fritz Pfeffer hid from the Nazi occupiers from July 1942 until they were betrayed and arrested in August 1944. Behind a movable bookcase in Otto Frank's business premises lay the Secret Annex, a few small rooms where eight people lived in silence during working hours. Anne wrote her diary here; she died in the Bergen-Belsen camp in early 1945, and her father Otto, the only one of the eight to survive, had the diary published in 1947. The museum opened in 1960. People come because the rooms are real: the pencil marks of the girls' heights, the pictures Anne pasted on her wall, the original diary on display. The empty rooms - kept unfurnished at Otto Frank's wish - say more than a reconstruction could. The honest caveat: tickets are sold only online and sell out weeks ahead, the visit is quiet, crowded and heavy, and the Annex is reached only by steep narrow stairs.

Prinsengracht 263-267 (entrance on Westermarkt), Amsterdam, Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Open every day of the year except Yom Kippur, usually from about 09:00 to the evening, often 22:00 on some days - hours vary by season and weekday, confirm for your date. Entry is ONLY with an online ticket for a fixed time slot bought on the museum's own website; there is no ticket desk. Tickets release every Tuesday at 10:00 Amsterdam time for the week six weeks later. The entrance is on Westermarkt beside the Westerkerk: about 10 minutes on foot from Dam Square, or tram to Westermarkt.

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