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Anne Frank Huis
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands

A memorial to a young girl caught up in a war.

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Amsterdam (Eyewitness Travel Guides) (Paperback) by DK Publishing

Amsterdam
Eyewitness Travel Guide
by DK Publishing

The Anne Frank Huis is a museum dedicated to Anne Frank, her family, and extended family. Anne was a German Jew. Her father, Otto Frank, moved the family from Frankfurt, Germany to escape persecution at the hands of Hitler's Nazis during the 1930s. He re-established his business in Amsterdam. The German army invaded Holland in May 1940 and had the whole country in their grip within five days. The German Nazis then began imposing restrictions on Jews in that country, the very thing that Otto Frank had fled from in his native Germany. Two years later the family moved out of their home and slipped into hiding in the annex of her father's warehouse in Amsterdam. This is the "Anne Frank Huis." They stayed there until they were betrayed and subsequently arrested in August 1944.

Anne, then 16, and most of her family were deported to Auschwitz prison, a Nazi concentration camp near Krakow, Poland. She died in another prison camp in early 1945 just weeks before liberation. Of her family, only her father survived these murder factories. He returned to Amsterdam after the war and was given his daughter's diary which had survived and was found in the secret apartment. Otto had the diary published under the Dutch title Het Achterhuis. The English translation was published under the title Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. It has become one of the best selling books of all time.

The Anne Frank Huis receives nearly a million visitors a year. During the tourist season the waiting line can be very long. I was there a couple of days after Christmas and even then the line wrapped around the corner for some distance.

Location:	263, Prinsengracht, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Telephone:	+31 (0)20 556.7100
Hours:	Mid March through Mid September, 09h00 to 21h00. Mid September through Mid March, 09h00 to 19h00. Special Days: January 1, 12h00 to 19h00 March 13, 13h00 to 19h00 May 4, 09h00 to 19h00 October 9, 2008. Yom Kippur. Closed from sundown the previous evening. December 25, 12h00 to 17h00 December 31, 09h00 to 17h00
Cost:	Adults 18 and older, €7.50 Ages 10 to 17, €3.50 Ages 9 and under, free Visa and Mastercard accepted. The Netherlands Museumkaart, Museum Card, is not valid.
House rules:	No smoking. No cell phones. No photography. No video cameras.
Handicapped:	No provisions.

Recommended books for further information:

By Anne Frank:

The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank, translated by B.M. Mooyaart-Doubleday.
The Diary of Anne Frank: The Critical Edition, by Anne Frank, translated by Arnold J. Pomeras and B.M. Mooyaart-Doubleday. Prepared by the Netherlands State Instute for War Documentation.

About Anne Frank:
The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank, by Willy Lindwer.
Anne Frank: The Biography, by Melissa Müller, translated by Rita and Robert Kimber.

About Anne Frank for teenagers:
Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary: A Photographic Rememberance, by Ruud van der Rol and Riam Verhoeven.
Anne Frank, by Rachel Epstein.
Anne Frank: Child of the Holocaust, by Gene Brown.
Anne Frank, by Sandor Katz.

DVDs
Anne Frank - The Whole Story, directed by Robert Dornhelm.
Anne Frank Remembered, directed by Jon Blair.

Additional Reading
The Hiding Place, by Corrie ten Boom.
This is a little known account of a Christian family in Haarlem, about 10 miles from Amsterdam. Corrie ten Boom, her father, and her family made their home central headquarters for smuggling Jews and American airmen to safety during the Nazi occupation of Holland in WWII. They didn't need to do it but they put themselves in harm's way and suffered horribly for it. This woman is a saint.

Guides to the The Netherlands and Amsterdam
Michelin Green Guide Netherlands
Baedeker's Netherlands
DK Eyewitness Holland
Fodor's Holland
Michelin Red Guide Benelux 2004
Lonely Planet Netherlands
DK Eyewitness Travel Guide to Amsterdam
Michelin Green Guide Amsterdam and Environs
Baedeker's Amsterdam
Fodor's Citypack Amsterdam
Lonely Planet Amsterdam

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