Full-scale replica of Anne Frank’s annex to open in NYC in 2025 – for first time outside Amsterdam

A full-scale replica of Anne Frank’s Secret Annex is opening successful New York City aboriginal adjacent twelvemonth to commemorate the 80th day of the liberation of Auschwitz, the Anne Frank House depository announced Wednesday.

For the archetypal clip successful history, visitors extracurricular the Netherlands volition get a accidental to locomotion done an nonstop recreation of the cramped abstraction wherever the wartime diarist and 7 different radical evaded the persecution of Jews successful Nazi-occupied Amsterdam lived from July 1942 until their seizure connected August 4,1944.

“Anne Frank: The Exhibition,” is acceptable to unfastened connected Jan. 27 — International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Visitors volition summation the accidental to larn much astir the German-born Jewish teen who died astatine a attraction campy astatine 15 and became known astir the satellite arsenic a awesome of resilience and strength.

Anne Frank was lone 13 erstwhile she went into hiding with her parents and sister. Four different acquaintances aboriginal joined the Franks successful the now-famous annex, which would location the 8 radical for conscionable implicit 2 years.

The astir 450-square-foot area — built supra an bureau and famously hidden down a bookcase — is wherever the young teen documented her experiences, fears and hopes arsenic a Jewish teen increasing up during the horrors of the German concern of the Netherlands.

“The Diary of a Young Girl,” which was published 2 years aft her death, would aboriginal go 1 of the world’s astir wide work and translated books, with much than 30 cardinal copies sold.

Anne Frank House successful Amsterdam. (Cris Toala Olivares)

“Anne Frank’s words resonate and animate today, a dependable we transportation to each corners of the world, astir 8 decades later,” Ronald Leopold, enforcement manager of the Anne Frank House, said successful a statement. “As a custodian of Anne’s legacy, we person an work to assistance satellite audiences recognize the humanities roots and improvement of antisemitism, including however it fueled Nazi ideology that led to the Holocaust.”

The first-of-its-kind exhibition, presented by the Center for Jewish History, contextualize the abbreviated and impactful beingness of 1 of the world’s best-known diarists and astir memorable victims of the Holocaust, organizers say. That includes her puerility years successful Frankfurt, Germany and her family’s determination to Amsterdam amid the emergence of the Nazi regime.

Besides affording the accidental to locomotion done an nonstop replica of the Annex, “furnished arsenic it would person been erstwhile Anne and her household were forced into hiding,” visitors of Anne Frank: The Exhibition volition besides spot dozens of archetypal artifacts from the Anne Frank House successful Amsterdam and bespeak connected her bequest done video, sound, photography, and animation.

“As we attack the 80th day of the liberation of Auschwitz successful January, Anne Frank’s communicative becomes much urgent than ever,” said Gavriel Rosenfeld, president of the Center for Jewish History. “This accumulation challenges america to face these dangers head-on and grant the representation of those mislaid successful the Holocaust.”

Tickets for “Anne Frank: The Exhibition” are present disposable online. The installation volition tally until April 30.