A history - a part of Our heritage - the museum worth being seen, Anne Frank's.

Anne Frank life was always an intriguing matter, her very short life was an issue, it was something, everyone caught themselves interesting – how on Earth someone might have written so good, so passionately, so vividly and lively during the war. It was Anne herself, who managed. She hid from Nazi persecution with her family, a group of people in a small room, waiting, in frantic despair what tomorrow brings. Life or death. At the war time it didn't probably matter for them yet the overwhelming desire to live, to thieve, to survive the war persisted but sadly didn't save their lives.

The building is  just an ordinary place, not an outstanding modern, eye-catching one, it was build by Dirk van Delft in 1635.

Otto Frank had been working for gelling companies, he did realize what the Nazis politics was going to bring onto the whole world, how tremendously it changed the political powers, and how fragile the western countries appeared to be against its strength.  Poland, Czechoslovakia, France, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg – all these countries collapsed, were defeated and scrutinized. In 1940 all was clear, the Hitler’s dominance over the Europe was evident, ultimately, Otto Frank decided to changed the whereabouts of the companies he was working for and moved to Singel – Prinsengracht 263.

The diversity of the house is very significant, namely, the ground floor is made of three parts or sections for storing goods, and its distribution. Second section consists of spice mills. Originally the first floor was mostly occupied by Otto Frank’s workers, his employees got its offices there. Below the floors there was another room, where they all hid from the Nazi. They managed to keep their existence in secret until the betrayal took place, two years later. The Secret Annex was a perfect place for hiding, for Otto, his wife Edith and two of their daughters.

After the betrayal, the whole family was transported to the concentration camp, the one the Nazi built in Poland, in Oswiecim, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Brzezinka. Only Otto Frank survived the war.

After the war Otto Frank returned to Amsterdam, he gathered all the possessions once his family owed, not everything – clusters of what remained. Luckily Anne Frank’s Diary was retrieved, as well. It was published in Dutch in 1947. In order the building was restored, Otto Frank set up a foundation,  The Anne Frank Foundation in 1957, three years later in 1960 the museum was opened.

In 1999 the museum itself was honoured, it was reopened by Queen of the Netherlands, Beatrix.

It is a very important place to see, as important as Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Nazi concentration camp built in Poland. Why? It doesn't allow Us to forget what happened, We should always remember about the war, about genocide and ethnic-cleansing that occurred in Europe. Now it is a part of Our heritage, whether we like it or not. The one We should be so ashamed of.