Amsterdam Day Trip (Day 5, 29 Jan 08, Tue) (Part 2)
>> Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Continuing the tour of Amsterdam Old District...
A diamond store
Venu, Kian Shing, and I
Heineken Museum
A clock tower
A fairly large canal
Tulip bulbs to grow at home
Flowers
Cannabis Starter Kit
Wooden windows
A church we passed by
The dimly lit interior of the church
Another canal we passed by
Nice monuments
Gay & Lesbian Info Stand (unfortunately, it is closed so we don't know what's inside)
Me with an Amsterdam Street Map
A statue of Anne Frank
Janan and IWe went into the Anne Frank Museum. The admission ticket costs 7.50 euros. Unfortunately, all visitors are not allowed to take photos inside the museum.
"Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (June 12, 1929 – early March 1945) was a German-born Jewish girl from the city of Frankfurt, who wrote a diary while in hiding with her family and four friends in Amsterdam during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.
Anne and her family moved to Amsterdam in 1933 after the Nazis gained power in Germany, and were trapped by the occupation of the Netherlands, which began in 1940. As persecutions against the Jewish population increased, the family went into hiding in July 1942 in hidden rooms in her father Otto Frank's office building. After two years, the group was betrayed and transported to concentration camps. Seven months after her arrest, Anne Frank died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, within days of the death of her sister, Margot Frank. Her father Otto, the only survivor of the group, returned to Amsterdam after the war to find that her diary had been saved, and his efforts led to its publication in 1947. It was translated from its original Dutch and first published in English in 1952 as The Diary of a Young Girl.
The diary, which was given to Anne on her 13th birthday, chronicles her life from June 12, 1942 until August 1, 1944. It has been translated into many languages, has become one of the world's most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films." Extracted from Wikipedia
The museum is insightful and allows us to explore the hiding places and describes their lifestyles during the German occupation but we feel that the ticket is a little overpriced.
"Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (June 12, 1929 – early March 1945) was a German-born Jewish girl from the city of Frankfurt, who wrote a diary while in hiding with her family and four friends in Amsterdam during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.
Anne and her family moved to Amsterdam in 1933 after the Nazis gained power in Germany, and were trapped by the occupation of the Netherlands, which began in 1940. As persecutions against the Jewish population increased, the family went into hiding in July 1942 in hidden rooms in her father Otto Frank's office building. After two years, the group was betrayed and transported to concentration camps. Seven months after her arrest, Anne Frank died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, within days of the death of her sister, Margot Frank. Her father Otto, the only survivor of the group, returned to Amsterdam after the war to find that her diary had been saved, and his efforts led to its publication in 1947. It was translated from its original Dutch and first published in English in 1952 as The Diary of a Young Girl.
The diary, which was given to Anne on her 13th birthday, chronicles her life from June 12, 1942 until August 1, 1944. It has been translated into many languages, has become one of the world's most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films." Extracted from Wikipedia
The museum is insightful and allows us to explore the hiding places and describes their lifestyles during the German occupation but we feel that the ticket is a little overpriced.
Outside Anne Frank Huis
A statue in the middle of the street
Intricate designs on top of a building
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