Amsterdam – Anne Frank’s Other House Open to Public for 1 Day

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    FILE - German President Christian wulff (R) and his wife Bettina Wulff (L) looking at a photograph of Anne Frank at the Anne-Frank-House in?Amsterdam, Netherlands on 23 March 2011. Amsterdam – The apartment where Jewish diarist Anne Frank lived with her family before they went into hiding from Nazis during World War II will be opened to the public for one day next month, the housing corporation that owns it said Thursday.

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    The Ymere corporation bought the apartment on Merwedeplein, a street in southern Amsterdam, in 2004 and restored it to 1930s style with the help of the Anne Frank Foundation.

    Fittingly, a Dutch foundation now uses it for a writer-in-residence program for foreign writers who are oppressed in their home country.

    Ymere corporation said in a statement that a maximum of 300 paying guests will be allowed to wander through the apartment where Anne and her family lived from 1933 to 1942. It will be opened on Dec. 10 and tickets sold only by the nearby Jimmink bookstore will cost €7.50 ($10.00).

    The 1930s furnishings mean “the home has the same atmosphere as the Frank family left behind,” Ymere said in a statement.

    The family then moved to a small hidden apartment behind a canal house where Anne wrote most of the diary that turned her into a symbol of all the Jews who died during the Holocaust after it was posthumously published.

    Anne and here family were captured after two years in hiding. She died in a German concentration camp in 1945.


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