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Anne Frank was a young Jewish girl living in Amsterdam during the Holocaust. She receives a diary for her birthday; she hopes it will be a ‘great source of comfort and support’. Anne’s diary begins at a crucial point in her life, and in the diary Anne depicts her life in hiding from the Nazis.
In July 1942, Anne’s family fled to a secret hiding place in the annex of the building that housed her father’s business. They remained there, until they were finally discovered by German soldiers just over 2 years later and deported to concentrations camps. Anne’s father was the only member of the family to survive. In 1960 the Anne Frank House Museum was opened on the site.
Anne Frank House Web and Digital:
From the Anne Frank Museum website: Can’t come to Amsterdam? You can still visit this special place from wherever you are. Look around the Secret Annex online and find out more about what happened here or put on your VR glasses and take a virtual stroll through the hiding place where Anne Frank wrote her diary. You can also take a look around the house where Anne and her family lived before going into hiding and visit an online exhibition about Anne Frank’s life.
Accessibility Information
General accessibility features:- Disabled parking access
Mobility Information:From the Anne Frank House website:
Unfortunately, the old part of the museum and the Secret Annex are not accessible for people using wheelchairs. A special entrance for people using wheelchairs provides access to the modern part of the museum, with the temporary exhibition, the museum cafe, and the museum shop. You can also wander around the Secret Annex with virtual reality glasses. Please ask for them at the information desk. The museum staff is happy to be of assistance.
There is a disabled parking space at Westermarkt, at 40 metres from the entrance to the museum.
Vision accessibility features:- Audio description services
Vision Information:From the Anne Frank House website:
Visually-impaired visitors can listen to the audio tour. On the advice of the Royal Dutch Guide Dogs Foundation, we do not allow guide dogs inside the museum.
Hearing Information:From the Anne Frank House website:
At the information stand near the entrance, hearing-impaired visitors can obtain a written version of the audio tour.
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