TheDiary Roomholds Anne’s original red-checked diary plus some of her other manuscripts. The filmReflectionsshows what Anne Frank’s diary and life story meant to 22 writers, actors, visitors and people who knew Anne. The interactive exhibitionA Room Full of Dreamsis about the pictures and ...
Ronald Leopold, director of the Anne Frank House, said furnishing the recreated space was important to tell Anne's story in a new and immersive way, especially for those who may not get to visit the Amsterdam museum, which also houses Frank’s original diary. “We ve...
In the first part of the article the author focuses on the original experiences of Anne Frank during her time in hiding during the Second World War, which were recorded in her diary. Nowadays, the same building hosts the Anne Frank Museum, which is one of the most pop...
Permanent displays of personal objects and documents animate the life and times of Anne Frank, her family, and the others who shared their attic hideaway. Tucked beyond a false bookcase, this secret annex is the star draw. Elsewhere, a diary room houses her original red- and green-checked ...
In 1960, the building at Prinsengracht 263, home to the Secret Annex, opened to the public as a museum devoted to the life of Anne Frank. Her original diary is on display there. By the fall of 1933, Otto Frank moved to Amsterdam, where he established a small but successful company that...
Anne Frank was born in 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany. Her family sought refuge in Amsterdam in 1933, fleeing from the rising threat of Nazi Germany. In July 1942, the Frank family, along with four others, began their clandestine life in a secret annex at Prinsengracht 263. Anne’s diary, wh...
When you’ve finished looking around the annexe, you can visit the Diary Room. Here, you’ll find the original red diary which Anne Frank wrote her thoughts in. This was a gift for her 13thbirthday, a few weeks before the family went into hiding. She filled the diary quickly, then mov...
These public relations mishaps, clumsy though they may have been, were not really mistakes, nor even the fault of the museum alone. On the contrary, the runaway success of Anne Frank’s diary depended on playing down her Jewish identity: At least two direct references to Hanukkah were edited...
In an attempt to alter the famous narrative,“Anne,”currently on stage at theMuseum of Tolerance’s Pelz Theatre, is a fantasized interpretation written byJessica DurlacherandLeon de Winter, based on Frank’sThe Diary of aYoung Girladapted byNick Blaemire.Directed byEve Brandstein,in this ve...
display in the Anne Frank House. The diary of Anne Frank The diary The diary begins on 12 June 1942, when Anne received the diary as a gift for her 13th birthday. Her last entry was on 1 August 1944. Three days later, on 4 August, life in the Secret Annex was brutally interrupted....