Anne franks capture and the holocaust in historical. The door to the attic was hidden by a bookcase and a map. In august 1942, johan voskuijl built a hinged bookcase to conceal the entrance to the secret annex. The entrance to the secret annex is labeled swinging cupboard rather than bookcase. Who else hid with the frank family in the annex answers. The secret annex the diary of anne frank study guide. Anne franks diary now has coauthor, extended copyright. Take a look around and discover the secret annex where anne frank hid for more than 2 years during wwii and where she wrote her diary.
Those who lived with her in hiding in a secret annex behind an amsterdam warehouse, its entrance concealed by a bookcase, respected her pen sufficiently to worry about how it. Anne frank bookcase hiding the secret annex ebroomable. Visitors enter the secret annex through the narrow opening past the moveable bookcase. The creators of this exhibition hope it also helps to encourage reflection on the dangers of antisemitism, racism, and discrimination and the importance of freedom, equal rights, and democracy. In the summer of 1942, the nazis threatened to carry out house searches if the dutch continued to refuse to hand in their bicycles. A bookcase as a secret door anne frank house secret annex duration. Furthermore, in august 1942, voskuijl built the famous bookcase that concealed the entrance to the secret annex. The secret annex was the upper loft of otto franks business building, where him and his family, along with a few others were in hiding from the nazis. A bookcase as a secret door anne frank house secret annex. The moveable bookcase, which conceals the door to the secret annex. In this video, we have the opportunity to walk through the secret hiding place that anne.
The rooms of the secret annex are furnished in the style of the time spent in hiding and provide an empathetic experience. This is the bookcase that hid the opening of the secret annex where anne frank and her family lived in amsterdam during world war ii. They try to imagine what it must have been like to be locked in for two years, always living in fear, and closed off from the outside world. To solve this problem, another staircase was constructed between the main houses first and the second floors. Inside the anne frank house museum in amsterdam, the netherlands, are the swinging bookcase above which conceals the door into the secret annex. The hiding place of the frank family and the others was kept secret until. Voskuijl and his daughter discussed the annex a lot with. The revolving bookcase on the landing concealed the entrance to the secret annex. The movable bookcase the floor plan of the secret annex while the family was in hiding.
They agreed and then risked their own lives to smuggle food, supplies and news of the outside world into the socalled secret annex, whose entrance was hidden behind a movable bookcase. The original bookcase that concealed the entrance to the hiding place. There are four other jews in the secret annex besides the frank family. It therefore became necessary to protect the hiding place better, and helper johan voskuijl built a revolving bookcase. For weeks, otto couldnt bear to read the words scribbled on those pages, but when he did, he found anne franks remarkable account of life hidden behind a movable bookcase in the secret. On august 4, 1944, police in nazioccupied amsterdam raided a warehouse and arrested eight jews who were hiding in an annex disguised behind a bookcase. 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. They walked to the opekta offices on the prinsengracht, where they hid in a threefloor space called the achterhuis, secret annex, which was later concealed by a heavy large bookcase. This is the staircase that leads to the landing where later, a bookcase was placed in front of the entrance to the secret annex. How was the entrance to the secret annex been concealed and by whom. The annex is something people can still visit today as it has. Otto, edith, and margot shared a room that was feet long by 8 feet wide. The secret annex this is the bookcase that hid the.
Hermann and auguste van pels with their son peter, and fritz pfeffer. Anne frank bookcase hiding the secret annex youtube. The original bookcase that concealed the entrance to the hiding place during the war has been part of the anne frank house since its opening in 1960. In august 1942, he built a hinged bookcase to conceal the entrance to the secret annex. Bicycles were valuable assets in wartime, which is why the nazis wanted them. Although it was only a onetime letter exchange between two girls one from a farm town in iowa and the other living in amsterdam the surviving. There, you went through another entrance door and climbed up a second, steep staircase to the annex.
Interview in dutch of miep gies showing the bookcase concealing the entrance of the secret annex where anne frank and her family were in hiding. How was the entrance to the secret annex concealed answers. It was concealed by a swinging bookcase with a map of belgium above it. Anne frank takes us behind the movable bookcase youtube. To many people, visiting the anne frank house is an emotional experience. The secret annex, or het achterhuis, was behind that bookcase. Among those captured was anne frank, a 15yearold schoolgirl who had spent over two years living in the cramped safehouse with her parents and older sister.
The address is prinsengracht 263 anne and her family hid in a secret annex which was a small part of otto franks business hidden by a bookcase on hinges. Two bloody hours to see a bookshelf hiding a staircase. The entrance to the secret annex was hidden by a hinged bookcase, and former employees of otto and other dutch friends delivered them food and supplies procured at. Bobbin used to open and close the bookcase anne frank house. The moveable bookcase which conceals the door to the secret annex. The entrance to the secret annex was hidden by a hinged bookcase, and former employees of otto and other dutch friends delivered them food and supplies procured at high risk. The setting of the play is a basement of a warehouse in amsterdam. Interview in dutch of miep gies showing the bookcase concealing the entrance of the secret annex where anne frank and her family were in.
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