Visit Anne Frank’s house in Amsterdam

Visit Anne Frank’s house in Amsterdam: a museum full of emotions to commemorate the Nazi persecutions of the Second World War.

The Anne Frank Museum, dedicated to the young girl – made worldwide famous for having held an intimate newspaper describing in detail the affors of the Nazi Occupation – victim of the Shoah with her family, is an invaluable testimony of the history of the Second World War. Located on the Prinsengracht Canal in Amsterdam, Anne Frank’s house is located in Westermarkt 20, a 20-minute walk from the central station. Visiting the teenager’s home-museum that marked the story gives us a rediscover of the history of this dark era, and the way Anne Frank and his family lived in this house as they had to abandon it to leave Poland during their deportation.

In this article we describe in detail how to visit Anne Frank’s house in Amsterdam: presentation, history, visit, and how to buy your tickets.

History of Anne Frank (1929-1945)

Anne Frank – born Annelies Marie Frank – was born on 12 June 1929 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. His father Otto Heinrich Frank (1889-1980) and his mother Edith Frank-Holländer (1900-1945), reformist Jews, already have a first daughter named Margot (1926-1945). In 1933, after the Nazi party came to power, the family fled to Amsterdam to protect themselves from anti-Semitic laws decreed by the dictatorial regime. In 1940, Nazi Germany invaded Holland: Anne Frank’s writings showed the beginning of the difficulties experienced during Nazi occupation and oppression. Refusing to submit to the Nazis, the family is hiding in the “Appendix”, the backbone of the Opekta (the company where Otto Frank was working): it is the beginning of their clandestinity.

It would be by listening to the minister of education of the Dutch government on the radio in London, calling for all the intimate newspapers written during the Occupation to remember the horrors and sufferings of the Dutch people and to pay tribute to the millions of victims, which Anne Frank would have decided to rewrite his notes to transform them into a real narrative. On 4 August 1944, the Gestapo found and arrested the family, possibly on denunciation. They are deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp and Bergen-Belsen. The two sisters Anne and Margot – hungry, typhus and too weak – died around March 1945, one month before the liberation of the camp by the British on April 15, 1945. Only the father, Otto Frank survived the camps.

The visit of Anne Frank’s house

As you go to Anne Frank’s house, you will discover what life was like in Amsterdam under the Nazi Occupation. By entering the house where the Frank family lived, left to abandon after the departure of the Frank family, the visitor discovers the stages of maturation of Anne Frank’s pen and the conditions of life during the Nazi Occupation. The Journal d’Anne Frank was published under the leadership of Otto Frank – the only survivor of the family’s deportation – in June 1947, and translated into more than 60 languages. He tells the 25 months spent in hiding behind a library.

The story gives details of the difficulties and tensions between the two families forced to live together in a few square meters, the character of the inhabitants of the house, the eccentricity of each one, the laughter and the disputes, the bad moods, the constant fear of being discovered and the horror experienced by entire Jewish families: arrests, separations, violence, deportations. The Journal of Anne Frank also describes the days in the Nazi concentration universe. In 1960, the house saved from the demolition was transformed into a museum: if it is empty, the visitor is no less filled with emotion by entering the place.

If you choose the guided tour, you can visit Anne Frank’s house to discover his life and that of his family, the horrors experienced by thousands of Jews during the war and visit the Jewish quarter of Amsterdam. The visitor passes pieces in pieces, where you can see pictures, objects, posters and postcards hanging on the walls. Visit the Anne Frank Museum is a tribute to the Frank family but more broadly, an invitation to collect all forms of persecution and discrimination.

How to visit the Anne Frank Museum?

Due to the high influx, it is recommended to book your ticket at least two months in advance. For this, it is best to book your ticket online, on the official website. It is possible to choose a tour guide, with six languages: English, Spanish, Dutch, French, Hebrew and Italian.

The museum's rates are:

• Adults : 10 €,
• Children 10-17 years old : 5 €,
• Children under 9 years of age: free,
• Electronic ticket supplement: €0.50.

To buy your tickets, you have to go on the official website of the Anne Frank Museum .

After your visit to the museum, you can go visit Anne Frank’s quarter during a guided tour to €27.5 .

The museum's schedules are:

• 1 April to 1 November: daily from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.,
• 1 November to 1 April: daily from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.,
• 1 January: 12 a.m. to 10 p.m.,
• 4 May: from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.,
• June, July, August: from 8:30 to 22:00,
• 18 September: from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.,
• 19 September: closed (Yom Kippour),
• 3 November: from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.,
• 25 and 31 December: from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Access the Anne Frank Museum: Access to the Anne Frank Museum is by tram, with lines 13, 14 or 17 or by bus 170, 172 or 174: get off at the Westermarkt stop.