The virtual reconstruction of the house has been possible thanks to the models designed in 1950 by Otto Frank, the parent, which shows the furniture, supplies, clothing and personal belongings of the refugees.
All diaries and manuscripts of Anne Frank returned to Amsterdam”s house on Prinsengracht street where the Jewish teenager lived in a secret attic between 1942 and 1945 before being arrested by the Nazis, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of its museum, May 3.
Former prime minister of the Netherlands Wim Kok, who chairs the supervisory board Anne Frank Foundation, recalled that the house was almost demolished after the Second World War but people “intelligent Amsterdam” prevented the demolition along with Anne”s father, Otto Frank, and U.S. support.
After repeated protests, a real estate company gave the house to the foundation grants that could help open the house as a museum on May 3, 1960.
For years is shown in the house at 263 Prinsengracht cover the daily squares red and white of Anne Frank. For many, it is considered his real diary. However, Ana, who fled with his family from Germany to Holland, also recorded his thoughts and experiences elsewhere.
Shortly after the arrest of Frank August 4, 1944 The two women who helped family, Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl prevented these roles remain in the hands of the Nazis risking their own lives. After the war, Gies gave them to Anne”s father, Otto, the only family who survived the German concentration camps. Ana”s father later made public some of the notes, which became famous as “The Diary of Anne Frank”.
All manuscripts, including notebooks and hundreds of loose pages, were in possession of Otto Frank until his death in 1980. Then, as provided for by the will, were kept at the Netherlands Institute of War Documents (NIOD). In recent months all the letters were delivered to the museum through an agreement between the Anne Frank Foundation and the NIOD.
&adeemp;lt;/p> The goal is for as many people as possible can see the originals, as said foundation director, Hans Westra. Every year come to the museum more than a million people.First published in 1947, the Diary of Anne Frank, symbolic story of the persecution of Jews by the Nazis, has since been translated into 70 languages. More than 35 million copies have been sold worldwide.
Ana and her sister Margot died of typhus in March 1945 respectively to 15 and 19 years in the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, a few weeks before the liberation of that country by the British army.
His mother Edith died in Auschwitz. The father, Otto Frank, the only one of the eight occupants of the secret attic have survived the Holocaust, died in 1980 at the age of 91.
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