The annex where anne and her family went into hiding dates from 1739.
Anne frank where did she live in the attic.
Anne had been told that there was a hiding place but not its location until the day of the actual move.
Otto frank s friends and colleagues johannes kleiman victor kugler jan gies and miep gies had helped to prepare the hiding place and smuggled food and clothing to the franks at great risk to their own lives.
The attic was the only place where she could be alone for a while or talk to peter undisturbed.
I go up to the loft almost every morning to let the stuffy indoor air blow out of my lungs anne wrote on 23 february 1944.
The secret annex of anne frank.
Take a look around and explore the secret annex where anne frank was in hiding for more than two years during world war ii and where she wrote her diary.
The frank family arrived safely at the secret annex located in otto frank s business at 263 prinsengracht in amsterdam.
In that year more than a hundred years after the construction of prinsengracht 263 the previous annex had been demolished to be replaced by a new larger annex.
Anne frank spent 761 days in the secret annex.
Seven days later july 13 1942 the van pels family the van daans in the published diary arrived at the secret annex.
Based on anne s diary and a few of her short stories we can reconstruct what typical weekdays and sundays in the secret annex would have been like.
Although each day was different from the last there was a certain rhythm to life in the secret annex.
An actress stage performance as anne frank was so bad that audience members yelled she s in the attic when nazi soldiers arrived onstage.