A major exhibit to be opened in New York in January by the Anne Frank Foundation will feature a full-size complete reproduction of the ‘secret annexe’ hidden in an Amsterdam canal house, where she and her family hid from the Nazis.
The exhibition at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan opens on January 27, which is International Holocaust Remembrance Day and will mark the 80th commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz.
The replica will enable visitors to immerse themselves in the rooms where Anne, her parents and sister, and four other Jews spent two years in hiding and Anne wrote her famous diary.
More than 100 original items from the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam will also be on show, including her first photo album, and handwritten verses by Anne in her friends’ poetry albums. The original diary is considered too fragile to travel.
Imge: The entrance into the secret annexe at the Anne Frank House. Photo: © Anne Frank House / Photographer: Cris Toala Olivares
