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The Anne Frank House

 annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/secret-annex

In 1942, Otto Frank and his family went into hiding in a secret annex above Otto’s offices. The family had moved – piecemeal – to the Netherlands from their native Germany from between summer 1933 and spring 1934, after the Nazi Party’s rise to power. The Nazis occupied the Netherlands in 1940, and two years later Otto decided to take his wife and two daughters into hiding. They moved, suddenly and secretly, into an annex

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