The Secret Annex, the Anne Frank House

the back house

The Secret Annex is the most visited dwelling in Amsterdam, is the house in which he lived and wrote much of his diario Anna Frank.

Depending on the time of year the queue can last for hours and then inside the maze of rooms and outbuildings it makes you stumble over and over again with the hundreds of visitors that crowd inside. So if you really want to abstract yourself and feel the loneliness of Annelies Marie Frank Hollander, better known as Anne Frank, I recommend that you choose another time to visit it.

Anna Frank She is undoubtedly the most famous Jewish girl in the world, the author of a newspaper that began when she was 13 years old. He died of typhus before reaching the age of 16 in the German concentration camp at Bergen Belsen, almost a month before he was liberated by British troops.

Otto Frank, Anne's father, decided to leave Germany with his family in 1933, and once settled in Amsterdam fHe joined two companies, one of condiments for meats and another that sold a jelly for jams. For six years the lives of Anne and her sister Margot passed peacefully, but in May 1940, the German army occupied Holland and the lives of the Jews began to change.

Ana began to record all the events in a notebook that his father had given him a month before when he was 13 years old.

Otto Frank decided use the back of your business as a home, enabled some offices as rooms and asked several of his workers to protect them and help them to stock up. During two years Eight people, the four members of the Frank family, another family of three with the surname Van Pels and a Jewish dentist, lived in hiding in the back house accessed through a false door camouflaged behind a bookcase.

The exact address of the house is Prinsengracht 267.


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