We dare you to find anything more moving than a visit to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. If you haven't been able to visit, you now have a chance to catch a recreation right here in the city.
Frank and her family hid in a secret annex in Amsterdam for two years after Adolf Hitler and the Nazis invaded the Netherlands. During this time, she kept a diary documenting her life in seclusion up until her capture and transfer to a concentration camp where the fifteen-year-old and most of her family perished. The Diary of Anne Frank has been translated into 75 languages and over 30 million copies have been sold.
We're sure you've read the diary, and as moving as it is, a visit to her actual hiding place is powerful and heart-wrenching, and a reminder that we must never forget the suffering inflicted by Hitler and his acolytes, and can never let it happen again.
Anne Frank The Exhibition, located at the Center for Jewish History in Union Square, is a full-scale recreation of the annex, complete with furniture pieces that adorned the space during Frank's years in hiding. Artifacts from that period will be on hand (such as Anne's first photo album), with some being viewed by the public for the first time ever.
Tickets start at $21, and there are all sorts of packages for families and groups sales. The exhibition will be open every day except Saturday and will run from January 27 through the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 30.
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