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The former hiding place of Anne Frank attracted a huge amount of interest, especially as translations and dramatizations of the diary had made her a figure known throughout the world. Over 9,000 visitors came in the museum's first open year. In a decade, there were twice as many.
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.
The museum was built around a secret annex in a canal-side house where Anne Frank hid from Nazis during World War II. ... the most authentic place where Anne Frank was in hiding and where she ...
Tales from the Secret Annex is a collection of miscellaneous prose fiction and non-fiction written by Anne Frank while she was in hiding during the Nazi occupation of The Netherlands. It was first published in The Netherlands in 1949, then in an expanded edition in 1960.
One of Anne Frank's close friends is opening up about her final encounter with the young Jewish icon and the history of her diary. ... the Franks were hiding in a secret annex in Amsterdam.
Otto Frank (father of Anne Frank) and Miep Gies, Achterhuis, Anne Frankhuis, Amsterdam, 9 May 1958 Miep and her husband Jan Gies at the book presentation of Miep Gies: Herinneringen aan Anne Frank (the Dutch version of the book Anne Frank remembered : the story of the woman who helped to hide the Frank family, 1987) in Anne Frankhuis near the moveable bookcase covering the stair to the secret ...
71 years ago today, Anne Frank was captured by the Nazi Gestapo in Amsterdam. The Frank family escaped from Germany in 1942, out of fear of being sent to a Nazi concentration camp. With the help ...
Karl Silberbauer was the Sicherheitsdienst (Nazi Security Service) officer who arrested Anne Frank and her family in their hiding place in 1944. [23] He was tracked down and identified as the arresting officer in October 1963 by the Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal.