Amsterdam Walk and Anne Frank House, Amsterdam, Netherland
A day walking through Amsterdam’s picturesque streets and canals before visiting the Anne Frank House, one of the city’s most important historic sites. 1291
Anne Frank House: Westermarkt 20, 1016 GV Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date Picture Taken: May, 2026
I spent much of the day wandering around Amsterdam, exploring its picturesque streets and canals both on my way to the Anne Frank House and afterward.
The building on the left houses the museum and modern entrance to the Anne Frank House, where visitors enter before continuing into the historic house and the Secret Annex.
These people were waiting outside for their scheduled time to enter the Anne Frank House.
My scheduled entrance time had not arrived yet, so I waited outside the Anne Frank House for a while.
The Secret Annex was the hidden section of the building where Anne Frank, her family, and four other people lived in hiding from the Nazis from July 1942 until August 1944.
The building behind the one shown in the photo below was the Secret Annex, where Anne Frank and seven others hid for more than two years during World War II.
The entrance was concealed behind a movable bookcase. During more than two years in hiding, Anne kept the diary that would later become one of the world’s best-known accounts of the Holocaust.
After the people in hiding were discovered and arrested, Anne was eventually sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where she died in early 1945 at the age of 15. Her father, Otto Frank, was the only one of the eight people in the Annex to survive the war.
I was finally inside the Anne Frank House museum, ready to begin my visit.
This is a model of the Secret Annex, showing the hidden rooms where Anne Frank and seven others lived in hiding during World War II.
The Secret Annex had two levels, and this model shows the lower level where some of the rooms were located.
This is from the dining table side.
This shows the same lower level of the Secret Annex from the opposite direction, looking away from the dining room.
This is the upper level of the Secret Annex. The smaller room was shared by Anne Frank and Fritz Pfeffer, while the larger room was used by Anne’s parents and her sister Margot.
These shows the same upper level of the Secret Annex from the different directions.
This shows the bookcase that concealed the secret entrance to the Annex, hiding the doorway from view.
These photos show artistic recreations of the rooms in the Secret Annex, created for movies and television productions about Anne Frank's life.
Unfortunately, photography was not allowed inside the Secret Annex, so I wasn’t able to take any pictures during the tour.
Anne Frank and her older sister, Margot, were forced to leave their regular schools and attend a separate Jewish school after the Nazis imposed restrictions on Jewish students.
Anne Frank and her elder sister Margot
These are photographs of some of Anne and Margot’s Jewish classmates at the Jewish Lyceum in Amsterdam.
Beyond the red wall shown in the photo is Anne Frank’s original diary, where she recorded her thoughts and experiences while living in hiding.
