This is Anne Frank in 1939. Three years later, for her 13th birthday, she receives a red-checked diary as a present. In three days, on June 12, this will be exactly 80 years ago. | 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