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ANNE FRANK HUIS - HOUSE OF ANNE FRANK

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Prinsengracht 263-267, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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2024
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Incredible museum, poignant memory of a teenager who made us understand the horror of war better than anyone else...

It was here that the Frank family found refuge after fleeing Germany in 1933, and where they lived in total hiding from 1941 onwards, surrounded by a few friends, including the Van Daan couple, who were also threatened with death due to the daily roundups of Jews. The story of this hidden existence, recorded day by day by the young Anne Frank in her deeply moving diary, went round the world and became the symbol of murdered innocence. It came to a tragic end on August 4, 1944, when the Frank family and their eight companions were arrested on anonymous tip-offs and deported to the death camps. Anne and her sister Margot died of typhus in Bergen-Belsen in March 1945, and only Otto, the father, survived. It was to commemorate this tragic fate, but also to respond to strong popular pressure, that the house was saved from demolition and remained largely intact, as if frozen on the threshold of an unbridgeable moment of horror.

Open to the public since 1960, the house is divided by an inner courtyard, with the voorhuis at the front and theachterhuis at the back. It was on the2nd and3rd floors of theachterhuis that Otto Frank set up his makeshift hideaway, consisting of three rooms and an attic accessed via a revolving bookcase. At night, all the windows were covered with black canvas, a practice imposed on Amstellodammers by the Germans to prevent the Allies from finding their way around. The absolute bareness of the premises reinforces the sense of emptiness and absence of its last occupants. In Anne Frank's room, on the faded tapestries, we can still see a few photographs of film stars cut out from magazines of the time, little windows on dreams and innocence in a brutal world on the verge of perdition. The Van Daan family lived on the upper floor. A walkway, installed after the war, leads to the front house, home to the Anne Frank Foundation for the fight against racism, which houses various documents and photographs on this theme in several rooms. The young girl's diary is available in several languages. This memorial museum has gained immeasurable importance over the years, and has the longest average queue (in size, not duration, fortunately) of any museum in the Netherlands. A very moving place...

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mathou1003
Visited in april 2017
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Surement un des lieux incontournables à voir et à visiter... nous nous y sommes pris trop tard pr reserver des billets en ligne (3 mois avant..) et une fois sur place il fallait faire la queue pdt 2-3h... trop de temps perdu pour 48h à amsterdam
on peut quand meme passer devant la maison sans la visiter, une petite statue d'Anne est juste devant
Visited in july 2016
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Beaucoup d'attente mais le muse en vaut le coup! incontournable!
niniche37
Visited in april 2016
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un des musées incontournable d'Amsterdam, visite très émouvante de la maison d'Anne Franck ,lieu chargé d'histoire. si vous ne voulez pas faire la queue faites comme nous allez y vers 20h c'est ouvert jusqu'à 22 h
caly76
Visited in february 2017
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Musée incontournable et d'une importance vitale! Visite très émouvante, même s'il y a beaucoup de monde à la fois dans un si petit lieu. Attention de bien acheter vos tickets à l'avance sur internet car énormément de monde l'après-midi lors des ventes de tickets libres!!
tweety37
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Probably the unmissable museum of Amsterdam.
A place full of history in which you really realise the horrors of war.
The Council: to book your tickets and your niche of visit in advance on the Internet if not the tours are only possible in the afternoon and generally 2 at 3:00 waiting.

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