Anne Frank House
Anne Frank House—Anne Frank Huis—centres on a simple, devastating idea: a teenager’s wartime hiding place became a public memorial. During the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II, Anne Frank hid with her family and four others in hidden rooms at the rear of this 17th-century canal house, later known as the Secret Annex. She did not survive the war, but her diary was published in 1947, turning private testimony into world history. The canal-side building was built in 1635 by Dirk van Delft, and the street façade dates from a later renovation in 1740. After the Anne Frank Foundation was created to protect the property from developers, the museum opened to the public on 3 May 1960—occupying three adjacent buildings along Prinsengracht, from 263 to 267. Today it preserves the Secret Annex and expands the story with an exhibition space addressing persecution and discrimination in many forms.
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