Amsterdam, seen as a city of forbidden fun, it also contains small jewels that must absolutely be visited. I'm talking about the Anne Frank House-Museum, one of the millions of victims of the anti-Semitic persecution of the Second World War, who became famous for the diario with which he unconsciously told the world about his family's years of hiding.
With the approach of the "Day of Remembrance" (January 27) established why the world remembered this terrible disaster and treasure the mistakes made in order not to commit new ones, it seems to me only right to speak of an "attraction" like this which marks and leaves deeply shaken.
The Anne Frank house is located in the heart of the Jewish quarter of Amsterdam, esttamente in Prinsengracht 263, headquarters of the company of Otto Frank, father of little Anne. It is definitely preferable book a visit on the site of annefrank.org to avoid the long queues at the entrance, considering that it is a real house in which the spaces are particularly narrow and therefore not many people can access it at the same time. Visit costs € 9,00 for adults and can be carried out from 9.00 to 19.00 (in the summer period until 21.00).
The building is composed of two sections: the first is a house overlooking the beautiful canal and the other is a house overlooking the back. Right on the upper floors of the back house Anne took refuge with her family and another Jewish family. On her thirteenth birthday Anne received the famous diary as a gift from her parents that she carried with her in the days (two years) of hiding.
The visit winds along the house in pure Dutch style up to the infamous library from which the hiding place was accessed. Another section of the house holds a series of objects that belonged to Anne and her family, preserved and cataloged to show the world all the hopes and sadly deluded expectations of a simple girl who had the misfortune to be born Jewish at the wrong time. .
"Cycling, dancing, whistling, observing the world, feeling young, knowing that I am free, that's what I would like" (Anne Frank - December 24, 1943)
