Amsterdam - House of Anne Frank

(Local Name: Anne Frank Huis) In this house on the Prinsengracht the Frank family, Jewish refugees from Frankfurt, hid from the Germans with a few friends between 1942 and 1944. Here Anne Frank wrote her famous diary, which has been translated into 51 languages. The final entry is for 1 August 1944. On 4 August they were arrested and sent to concentration camps. Only Anne's father, Otto Frank, survived; Anne herself died in Bergen- Belsen two months before the end of the war. In 1957 the house was given by its owner to the Anne Frank foundation. The foundation had it restored and turned it into a meeting place for young people of all nationalities. The front part of the house contains exhibitions of material documenting the persecution of the Jews under the Third Reich and publications on neo-Nazi movements the world over. The back of the house, where the Frank family had their hiding place, has been kept as far as possible in its original state.