“This is the bookcase. It was used to camouflage the entrance to the hiding place.” Historian Dr. Gertjan Broek showed 60 Minutes “the Annex” — a space behind an Amsterdam warehouse — where the Frank family and four others went into hiding from the Nazis. https://cbsn.ws/3rI04rh | 60 Minutes

For two years during the Second World War, the Secret Annex served as a hiding place for Anne Frank and the other people there. The Anne Frank House was established in 1957 and its main purpose was to preserve the hiding place. Read more about the history of the Anne Frank House... https://www.annefrank.org/en/about-us/how-it-all-began/ | Anne Frank House

Did you know that you can take a look around at the Secret Annex online? Discover where Anne Frank hid for more than 2 years during WWII and where she wrote her diary. In July 1942, the Frank family went into hiding. The Van Pels family followed a week later. The two families already knew each other: Hermann van Pels worked for Otto’s company. Four months later, they were joined by an eighth person: Fritz Pfeffer, an acquaintance of the Frank family. You can explore the different rooms of the Se