The Secret Annexe

On Saturday 1 February 2020, the cast of the Senior Play “The Diary of Anne Frank” travelled to Amsterdam to visit the house in which the Frank family hid during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, having moved there from Germany in 1933.

The trip, just for the day, consisted of a boat tour along the famous canals, a lunch-stop at the Pancake Bakery and a few hours spent walking through the city, soaking up the atmosphere, before going in to “Anne Frank Huis”.

The house is now preserved as a museum and gives visitors a fascinating and sobering insight into the life of Jewish people in hiding.

The students agreed that walking through the house was incredibly thought-provoking, bringing home exactly what life in hiding would have been like and would make performing the play incredibly real to them.

The Senior Play, “The Diary of Anne Frank”, which is nearly sold out, takes place on 11, 12 and 13 February 2020 at the Senior School. For ticket information please click below:

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More About Anne Frank

Anne Frank, her parents, Otto and Edith, and older sister, Margot, moved to the Netherlands from Germany after Adolf Hitler and the Nazis came to power in 1933. In 1942, Anne Frank, her family and five friends went into hiding in a secret apartment behind/above her father’s business in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. The Franks were discovered in 1944 and sent to concentration camps; only Anne’s father survived. Anne Frank’s diary of her family’s time in hiding, first published in 1947, has been translated into almost seventy languages and is one of the most widely read and poignant accounts of the Holocaust.

You can read more about Anne Frank and take a virtual tour of the secret annex in which she hid, by clicking on the button below.

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