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The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam is the place where Anne Frank was in hiding during World War II and where she wrote her diary. Now a museum, it receives over a million visitors from all over the world every year.
The Anne Frank House is a museum dedicated to the life and work of Anne Frank. It is a museum with a story. Visitors experience this story through quotations, photos, films and original artifacts such as the bookcase hiding the entrance to the Secret Annex and the pictures in Anne’s room. Anne’s original diary and other notebooks are on permanent display in the museum. The atmosphere in the museum is authentic and subdued; the primary focus is on the experience of the house and its significance.
About the Anne Frank House
The Anne Frank House is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and opening to the public of the place where Anne Frank went into hiding and wrote her diary during the Second World War. The organization brings the life story and the work of Anne Frank to the attention of as many people as possible worldwide, partly with the aim of raising awareness of the dangers of antisemitism, racism and discrimination and the importance of freedom, equal rights and democracy.
The Anne Frank House develops educational programs and products based on Anne Frank’s life story.
Anne Frank’s life story helps to make the fate of millions of victims of the Holocaust personal and comprehensible. It is a story that begins with prejudice and preconceptions: issues that still lead to anti-Semitism and other forms of discrimination, exclusion and persecution in all parts of the world.
‘We cannot change what has happened.
The only thing we can do is to learn
from the past and realize
what discrimination and the persecution
of innocent people mean.’
Otto Frank, 1970
The Anne Frank House does not receive any government subsidies for the museum and is dependent on museum visits for its income. For major initiatives concerning the museum, and for educational projects, the Anne Frank House depends on the support of charitable funds, individual donors and grant-giving bodies such as the European Union and the Dutch government.
Your donation will help us carry out our mission. If you feel strongly about the Anne Frank House, you can support us financially in a number of ways.
