Claim: Amsterdam was the home of diarist Anne Frank.

The Anne Frank House -LRB- Anne Frank Huis -RRB- is a writer 's house and biographical museum dedicated to Jewish wartime diarist Anne Frank . The building is located on a canal called the Prinsengracht , close to the Westerkerk , in central Amsterdam in the Netherlands .   During World War II , Anne Frank hid from Nazi persecution with her family and four other people in hidden rooms at the rear of the 17th-century canal house , known as the Secret Annex -LRB- Achterhuis -RRB- . Anne Frank did not survive the war , but in 1947 her wartime diary was published . In 1957 , the Anne Frank Foundation was established to protect the property from developers who wanted to demolish the block .   The museum opened on 3 May 1960 . It preserves the hiding place , has a permanent exhibition on the life and times of Anne Frank , and has an exhibition space about all forms of persecution and discrimination . In 2013 and 2014 , the museum had 1.2 million visitors and was the 3rd most visited museum in the Netherlands , after the Rijksmuseum and Van Gogh Museum .