Anne Frank House

The Anne Frank House at Prinsengracht 263 is one of the most moving places in Europe. Here, the Jewish Frank family hid from the Nazis from July 1942 to August 1944 in a back house — the "Achterhuis" — behind a bookshelf. Here, 13-year-old Anne wrote her world-famous diary.

The museum guides visitors through the original rooms: the movable bookshelf that concealed the entrance to the hideout, Anne's room with film star posters on the wall (still there!), the steep staircase, the narrow attic. The rooms are empty — at the express wish of Otto Frank, the only one of the eight in hiding to survive the Holocaust. This emptiness is particularly poignant.

The exhibition displays original pages of the diary, family photos, and documents that contextualize the story: the fate of over 100,000 Dutch Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust. A visit takes about 60–90 minutes and is emotionally intense.