Curated tour with Elke von Meding to mark Anne Frank Day
On 25 June 1947, Anne Frank’s diary was published for the first time under the title *Het Achterhuis*. Otto Frank was thus fulfilling his daughter Anne’s wish, as she had written in her diary: “You have known for a long time that my dearest wish is to become a journalist one day and later a famous writer. After the war, I definitely want to publish a book entitled ‘The Secret Annex’.”
Today, Anne Frank, who died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in the spring of 1945, just a few days after her sister Margot, is the best-known victim of the Nazi persecution and murder of European Jews. No other account from the history of the Holocaust has found as many readers worldwide as her diary, which she wrote whilst in hiding in a secret annex on Prinsengracht in Amsterdam. More than a million people visit the Secret Annex every year; today it is a museum known as the Anne Frank House.
As well-known as Anne Frank’s diary and her hiding place in Amsterdam are, little is known about her fate following her arrest in Amsterdam in August 1944. Anne Frank was unable to continue her diary entries, neither in Auschwitz nor in Bergen-Belsen. It is therefore the eyewitness accounts of young women who, like her, were imprisoned in Bergen-Belsen and survived, that provide further details about the subsequent fate of Anne Frank and her sister Margot.
Under the title “Anne Frank in the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp”, a guided tour led by Elke von Meding (AG Bergen-Belsen) will follow the “traces of Anne Frank” based on these memoirs and interviews.
The event begins at 2.30 pm. Admission is free. The meeting point is at the information desk of the Documentation Centre. You can reserve a place via our booking portal.
The organisers reserve the right to exercise their domiciliary rights and to refuse admission to or exclude from the event any persons who belong to right-wing extremist parties or organisations or who have made or continue to make anti-Semitic, anti-democratic, history-denying, nationalistic, racist or other inhuman statements, attitudes or visible signs.