Anne Frank House
By: text, Anne Frank House, Elias van der Plicht ; editor, Menno Metselaar ; translation, Tony Langham & Plym Peters
Publisher: Anne Frank House
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9789086670826; 9789086670819; 9789086670833; 9789086670840; 9789086670857; 9789086670864; 9789086670871; 9789086670888
Subjects: Guidebooks; Holocaust memorials; Hidden children (Holocaust); Jews; Persecutions; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Anne Frank House; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst00958866 (uri) http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst00958866
Description: This catalogue follows a visitor's route through the Anne Frank House at Prinsengracht 263-267, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It contains many photographs of artifacts related to the museum and to the Holocaust, excerpts from the writings of Anne Frank, who with her family and four other people, had hidden from the Nazis in the house's secret annex from 1942-1944, an account of her life story, and five essays that provide historical background to the full breadth of the Holocaust and the meaning of its history today.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-167).
Table of contents: title: Essays:; title: The (im)possibilities of escaping 1933-1942  -- Gertjan Broek; title: How unique was the Secret Annex? : people in hiding in the occupied Netherlands  -- Jaap Cohen; title: The Netherlands : the greatest number of Jewish victims in Western Europe  -- Pim Griffioen, Ron Zeller; title: A choir of voices : Holocaust diaries by Anne Frank and other young writers  -- Alexandra Zapruder; title: Anne, from diarist to icon -- Jeffrey Shandler.