This week, it is all about Anne Frank!!
That German-Jewish girl who went into hiding during the Holocaust, journaling her experiences in the renowned book known as The Diary of Anne Frank. Unfortunately, she died of typhus while at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in the early spring of 1945. She was only fifteen years old. So, Anne Frank became the symbol of the victims of the Holocaust worldwide.
Let’s start with the Anne Frank Monument located at Westermarkt, in Amsterdam.
๐Corner of Prinsengracht and Westermarkt, 1016 DH Amsterdam
The statue was designed in 1975 by Mari S. Andriessen (1897 – 1979) and unveiled in 1977 by Amsterdam mayor Ivo Samkalden and Otto Frank, Anne Frank’s father (1889 – 1980)
This bronze statue shows Anne Frank standing proudly on a stone pedestal with her hands behind her back as she looks up with hope.
The text on the pedestal reads:
“ANNE FRANK
1929 โ 1945”
The famous hiding place, “Secret Annex”, is just around the bend from the Westermarkt. The church called the Westerkerk is right next door to Anne Frank Huis Museum where “Het Achterhuis” accommodated Frank’s family in hiding from 6 July 1942 to 4 August 1944.
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