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Memory culture: The new Anne Frank house in Amsterdam

Two years, the transformation lasted, during operation. The Anne Frank house in Amsterdam has always had lots of visitors, but they bring less prior knowledge. To be collected with the new concept.



The diary of Anne Frank is world famous. The place where it was written, the house at the Amsterdam Prinsengracht 263 – is now known as the Anne Frank house – one of the most visited attractions in Europe. Each year, around 1.2 million visitors.

However, the requirements of the Museum change. “The young people who visit the Anne Frank house today, to experience the house and its history is quite different than my Generation,” says Ronald Leopold (Born in 1960), Director of the Anne Frank Foundation in Amsterdam. “I became, myself, am with the topic of the Second world war and the persecution of Jews, my parents have told me. The young people whose grandparents were not born until after the war, to have a completely different relationship, and they often know very much less about it.” And so it was decided that the Museum remodel: more Background, more context, more educational activities. For two years, the Museum of a site, possible, without, however, closed.

The diary got Anne Frank on 12. June 1942 to your 13. Birthday

Learn from the past

The Anne Frank house in Amsterdam wants to show not only what has happened in the time of national socialism, but also to convey how it happened. It wants to be Thought-provoking. “Memories of the story, Think about the story and Respond to the story are the three steps that define the work of the Anne Frank house,” says Ronald Leopold. “One of the most important Lessons from the history of the Nazi era, the Second world war and the Holocaust, the knowledge that this was all the work of man: the Ostracism, persecution and Deportation and eventually the murder of six million Jews.”

By a movable bookshelf, it went to the back of the house

In the newly designed house, the story of Anne Frank and her family is told with the help of Audio-Guides chronologically: The first years in Germany, fleeing the Nazis in the Netherlands, the first happy years there up to 1942 diving. At this point, the guide standing in front of the famous bookcase, behind the staircase is hidden behind the house. There hid Anne Frank and her family for two years in a confined space – until they were betrayed. “At the back of the house, we have changed nothing,” says the architect, Janneke Bierman. It is the heart of the Museum, a place of silence. The Audio Guide stops at this point. Later, the story continues: The betrayal of the family, the Deportation to a concentration camp. The only one who survived, Otto Frank. Anne’s father provides for this later, that the diary of his daughter is published.

Royal Opening

On Thursday (22.11.) was presented the newly designed permanent exhibition in Amsterdam ceremony – in the presence of the Dutch king, Willem Alexander, was conducted after the opening ceremony by the house and with the staff of the Museum of language.

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