ANNE FRANK HOUSE, Tour

Hi, my name’s Jill, and I’m your personal guide. Along with MyWoWo, I’d like to welcome you to one of the Wonders of the World: the Anne Frank House.

The house where Anne Frank, born in 1929, lived with her family, and where she wrote her famous Diary, is one of the most moving places in Amsterdam, because it recalls the dramatic events of the Holocaust and the tragic fate of the Dutch Jewish community during the Nazi occupation.

The visit starts on the ground floor, in the stores where Anne’s father, Otto Frank, traded in spices and foodstuffs. The offices of the company were on the first floor, but the most fascinating part is on the second floor.

Visitors can see the small rooms, hidden by a sliding bookcase, where, from July 1942 to August 1944, the Frank and van Peels families, along with other members of Amsterdam’s Jewish community, hid from the Nazis.

The rooms are bare, but on one of the walls you can see marks indicating the growing height of Anne and her sister Margot....