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- The Front House and Warehouse: You begin in the former Opekta business rooms of Otto Frank’s spice and pectin firm, where the helpers worked while the family hid above. Seeing the ordinary office makes the secrecy upstairs feel real.
- The Movable Bookcase: A hinged shelf of office binders concealed the entrance to the annex. It is the single most photographed object here, though photography inside is not allowed, so you simply look.
- Anne’s Room: She shared it with Fritz Pfeffer. The film-star pictures and postcards she glued to the wall are still there, under protective glass.
- The Height Marks: Pencil lines on the wallpaper record how Anne and her sister Margot grew during their time in hiding. It is a small detail, and one of the hardest to walk past.
- The Original Diary: Anne’s red-and-white checked
- The Front House and Warehouse: You begin in the former Opekta business rooms of Otto Frank’s spice and pectin firm, where the helpers worked while the family hid above. Seeing the ordinary office makes the secrecy upstairs feel real.
- The Movable Bookcase: A hinged shelf of office binders concealed the entrance to the annex. It is the single most photographed object here, though photography inside is not allowed, so you simply look.
- Anne’s Room: She shared it with Fritz Pfeffer. The film-star pictures and postcards she glued to the wall are still there, under protective glass.
- The Height Marks: Pencil lines on the wallpaper record how Anne and her sister Margot grew during their time in hiding. It is a small detail, and one of the hardest to walk past.
- The Original Diary: Anne’s red-and-white checked autograph book sits in a display case with other notebooks and loose sheets. Her handwriting is smaller and quicker than most people expect.
- The Van Pels and Annex Rooms: The steep stairs and cramped floors show how eight people shared a few rooms. Blackout curtains remained closed, so the interior stays dim.
- The Exhibition and Video Testimony: The last rooms hold Otto Frank’s recorded memories and details of what happened after the arrest on 4 August 1944. Of the eight people in hiding, Otto alone survived.
- The Westerkerk Next Door: Anne wrote about its bells, which marked the quarter hours for the hiders. Outside the museum, standing under the tower gives the house an audible backdrop.
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