Anne Frank House

Abstract

This catalogue follows a visitor's route through the Anne Frank House at Prinsengracht 263-267, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It contains many photographs of artifacts related to the museum and to the Holocaust, excerpts from the writings of Anne Frank, who with her family and four other people, had hidden from the Nazis in the house's secret annex from 1942-1944, an account of her life story, and five essays that provide historical background to the full breadth of the Holocaust and the meaning of its history today.

Contents

Essays: The (im)possibilities of escaping 1933-1942 / Gertjan Broek -- How unique was the Secret Annex? : people in hiding in the occupied Netherlands / Jaap Cohen -- The Netherlands : the greatest number of Jewish victims in Western Europe / Pim Griffioen, Ron Zeller -- A choir of voices : Holocaust diaries by Anne Frank and other young writers / Alexandra Zapruder -- Anne, from diarist to icon / Jeffrey Shandler.