Anne Frank House is the historic house where Jewish teenager Anne Frank, her family and four other Jews hid from the Nazis during World War II. Anne herself shared a tiny room with family friend Fritz Pfeffer (known to Anne as Albert Dussel). In August 1944, after more than two years living in a cramped secret annex of the canalside townhouse on Prinsengracht in the centre of Amsterdam, they were betrayed to the Germans. Anne died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp; however, her father survived and published her diary, which became world famous as testament to one person’s courage in the face of persecution. Today, the house is a permanent exhibition dedicated to the memory of Anne Frank, and the place where the original diary is on display. Visitors can see the room where Anne wrote most of her diary and, although the house was stripped by the Nazis after the Franks’ arrest, audiovisual presentations document how the rooms would have looked.

Anne Frankhuis, PO Box 730, 1000 AS Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tel: (020) 556 7100
Website: www.annefrank.nl

Air: Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. Rail: Train: Amsterdam Centraal Station. Tram: Public services. Road: Bus: Public services to Westermarkt. Car: Hwy-A10 (exit Centrum S105).

Nederlands Bureau voor Toerisme (Netherlands Board of Tourism)
PO Box 458, 2260 MG Leidschendam, The Netherlands
Tel: (070) 370 5705. Fax: (070) 320 1654. E-mail: info@nbt.nl
Website: www.holland.com
Netherlands Board of Tourism
PO Box 30783, London WC2B 6DH, UK
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Netherlands, Amsterdam