Anne Frank House, Netherlands

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- Jul 21, 2016, 5:37pm
- ⛅ 23 °C
- Altitude: 3 m
- Netherlands North Holland Gemeente Amsterdam Jordaan Anne Frank House 52.37512, 4.8837852°22’30” N 4°53’2” E
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Day 33
Anne Frank House
July 21, 2016 in the Netherlands ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Queued 3 hrs to see the house then an hour looking through. The saddest and yet one of the most inspiring stories from WWII. No pics allowed inside.

This is actual house she and her family hid in for 2 yrs. Chilling to see the bookshelf hiding the door to their annex. And the pictures she had pasted on the wall in her wee room. And the blackout curtains on all windows...

Wrenching that after all that, Nazis still rounded them up thanks to someone betraying their hiding place. Only her father Otto survived the whole ordeal...

Little did young Anne know her diary writings would be so widely read around the world. She was just 13 when they went into hiding and 15 when she died of typhus after 6 months at Auchwitz, just a few days after her dad was liberated from the camp by Russian troops.

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Richard n Sheila Travels This our first view of the queue...erk! After 2hrs we were at the door to go in when suddenly 8 police arrive and we are told there will be a delay. 1hr later they leave with a backpack left in the house by someone ... suspicious package no doubt. Made the wait in 32C heat that much worse...
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Richard n Sheila Travels That's less than half the queue...it goes between the red and grey buildings...
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Richard n Sheila Travels very sobering experience walking in the footsteps of such an amazing little girl
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Richard n Sheila Travels standing in line for 3 hrs then another hour due to a security breach we were 2 steps away from getting in....argh... someone left a backpack. worth the wait tho to walk in the steps of greatness.
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