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Treasure displayed in the New Hall added to the Anne Frank Museum

To mark the auspicious ceremony of 50th anniversary of the Anne Frank museum a new diary hall has officially been added to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. This ceremony was celebrated in the Westerkerk Cathedral also. Her Majesty of Amsterdam Queen Beatrix inaugrated the room on 28th April. The original diary which was written by Anne Frank will be kept on display over here. Until now only a part of it was at display and the rest was located at the Netherlands Institute of War Documentation (NIOD) but now these original manuscripts have been transferred to the Anne Frank House. The additional notebooks and loose sheets of papers have now been added in this room and can be viewed by the visitors. It is the first time when one of the greatest treasures in form of complete Anne Frank’s diaries and other manuscripts will be exhibited.

From 29th of April the hall has been opened for the visitors also. In addition to this ‘Anne Frank House Online’ website has also been launched for the convenience of the visitors. The guests will be able to experience a 3-D virtual visit of Anne Frank House through this site. Although a large number of visitors trip this Secrete Annexe and it has reached its maximum capacity but this facility will be helpful in attracting much more visitors. Anne Frank Museum is the same house where Frank family hid to escape persecution from Nazis from July 1942 till August 1944 during World War II. Within this period Anne Frank wrote her experiences in the diary. After this period they were deported to the concentration camps where only Otto Frank, Anne’s father, survived. Anne’s diary was published by Otto Frank after the war.