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Jan 17, 2022 · A new investigation has identified a suspect who may have betrayed Anne Frank and her family to the Nazis. The Jewish diarist died in a Nazi concentration camp in 1945, aged 15, after two years...
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With more than a million visitors a year, the Frank family's hiding place may well be the best-known building in Amsterdam. Visitors to the house on the Prinsengracht are primarily introduced to the story of Anne Frank. However, the story of the building itself started 350 years earlier.
As persecutions of the Jewish population increased in July 1942, the family went into hiding in concealed rooms behind a bookcase in the building where Frank's father, Otto Frank, worked. The hiding place is notably referred to as the "secret annex".
Take a look around and explore the Secret Annex where Anne Frank was in hiding for more than two years during World War II, and where she wrote her diary.
- The Physical Environment of The People in Hiding
- Behind The Bookcase
- Outside The Secret Annex
According to current views, the annex without a capital letter is the designation for the building part that was built in 1739 behind the front house dating from 1635. The building is a mishmash of rooms, corridors and stairs in which the uninitiated can quickly lose track. The capitalized 'Secret Annex' specifically refers to the top two floors, a...
The bookcase was placed in front of the entrance to the Secret Annex in August 1942, because Victor Kugler feared searches for hidden bicycles. That was not a complete exaggeration: the requisition of bicycles by the Wehrmacht was then just beginning. Hauptdienstleiter Schmidt said about this in a speech: 'They [the reluctant Dutch] should not imag...
The private office, the office kitchen and the (large) toilet were located in the annex, but not in the Secret Annex. Regular work was required on the drain and water pipes, and the arrival of the plumber forced silence in the Secret Annex again. The people in hiding used the kitchen partly because it was equipped with a geyser and a small stove. T...
Jul 3, 2024 · On August 4, 1944, after more than two years in hiding, the group was betrayed by an unknown informant. The Gestapo arrested the inhabitants of the Secret Annex along with two of their non-Jewish helpers.
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Jan 17, 2022 · It had been more than seven decades since Anne Frank and her family had been discovered in their hiding place in central Amsterdam and ultimately put on cattle cars to Auschwitz.
