Anne frank huis is a writer s house and biographical museum dedicated to jewish wartime diarist anne frank the building is located on a canal called the prinsengracht close to the westerkerk in central amsterdam in the netherlands.
Anne frank attic size.
In july 1942 the frank family went into hiding.
The nerves of the people in hiding were frayed with the constant air raid alarms the sound of the german defence artillery bombings and air combat.
Soon after they went into hiding.
Find out more with bitesize ks1 history.
The van pels family followed a week later.
The warnings start to come out of my ears i haven t been sleeping well and don t feel like working anne wrote on 26 july 1943.
The two families already knew each other.
Anne frank anne frank in 1940 born annelies or anneliese marie frank 1929 06 12 12 june 1929 frankfurt prussia weimar republic died february or march 1945 aged 15 bergen belsen concentration camp eastern hanover nazi germany resting place bergen belsen concentration camp lower saxony germany occupation diarist language dutch citizenship german until 1941 stateless from 1941 relatives.
Anne frank and her family spent two years hiding in a secret attic apartment behind the office of a family owned business in amsterdam.
Otto edith margot and anne frank and then otto s business partner hermann van pels his wife auguste and their son peter were all in the attic originally.
The anne frank house dutch.
2 the franks and four dutch jews who were hiding with them were discovered by authorities on august 4 1944.
Anne frank s diary kept for 761 days in hiding from the nazis in amsterdam during world war two.
Hermann van pels worked for otto s company.