Added: Nov 30, 2011

From: ymerecommunicatie

Duration: 4:9

Virtual tour thru Anne Frank's apartment at Merwede square, Amsterdam. Restored by non-profit social housing corporation Ymere to original 1930's style and atmosphere, with the help of the Dutch Anne Frank Foundation. More info see below. A www.FoToMoVo.nl video production for neighborhood news site www.ziezozuid.nl +++ The Amsterdam apartment where Jewish teenager Anne Frank and her family had lived for nine years before going into hiding due to the Nazi occupation was set to open for one day on December 10, 2011. "Around 400 people were being allowed to enter the home", said Andre Bakker, a spokesman for the Ymere social housing company, which owns the apartment where Frank and her family lived from 1933 to 1942. Tickets priced at 7.50 euros ($A10) were mainly sold to people living in the same neighbourhood of Amsterdam-South, Bakker said. The Ymere company bought the apartment in 2004, situated in a brick building built in 1931. Restoration started in 2005 from photographs of the Frank family "to try and replicate as close as possible how they lived", Bakker said. "This is the place where Anne Frank was at her happiest, before World War II," he said, adding that with five bedrooms, a linoleum-covered floor and a terrace, it was "chic for its time". The walls are adorned with original photographs, which belonged to the Amsterdam-based Anne Frank Foundation. The antique furniture was chosen for its resemblance to furniture found in pictures from Anne Frank's time. In July 1942, Anne Frank and her family decided to leave and hide from the Nazis in a secret annex at the back of his company's office building, along an Amsterdam canal. It was here that she penned her famous diary until the family were discovered in 1944. However, it was at her home at the Merwedeplein where she started this diary on her 13th birthday, June 12 1942, not knowing that her father was already making preparations for going into hiding in the annex. Anne Frank died in 1945 at the age of 15 at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northern Germany. "Anne Frank gave a face to the persecution of the Jews during the Second World War and we want to ensure that commemoration is maintained," said Bakker. The apartment is currently leased by the Dutch Fund for the Arts, which allowed foreign writers who did not have the right to work freely in their own countries, to live there temporarily.

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