Anne Frank Memorial House - Amsterdam, Netherlands
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This building in Amsterdam, used as a hideout during WWII, was converted into a memorial dedicated to Jewish wartime diarist and Holocaust victim Anne Frank.
Waymark Code: WMNYV5
Location: Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Date Posted: 05/25/2015
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Annelies Marie 'Anne' Frank (1929-1945) was a young Jewish writer, and one of the most well known victims of the Holocaust. She was born in Frankfurt, Germany, but moved with her family to Amsterdam when she was 4 years old. In 1942, after the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II, Anne went into hiding with her family and several other people in some concealed rooms in a canal-side building where Anne's father worked. They spent two years in that house, during which Anne wrote of her experiences in her wartime diary The Diary of a Young Girl.
The family was eventually betrayed and captured, and 15-year-old Anne Frank died in a concentration camp in 1945.
Her wartime diary was published in 1947, and has since been translated into more than 60 languages.
The house they had been hiding in was converted into a museum which opened in 1960. It serves as a memorial that preserves the family's hiding place, and has a permanent exhibition on the life and times of Anne Frank. The memorial house and museum get over 1 million visitors a year.
Date of Dedication: 05/03/1960
Property Permission: Public
Access instructions: Visible from the street, museum entrance gets you into the building.
Access times: From: 9:00 AM To: 7:00 PM
Website for Waymark: [Web Link]
Location of waymark:
Prinsengracht 263-267
Amsterdam, GV Netherlands
1016
Commemoration: Holocaust victim Anne Frank
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