Virtual Tour of Anne Frank's Hiding Place During World War II

The Anne Frank House Museum has provided a virtual tour of the small rooms where Anne Frank and her family lived secretly in Amsterdam during the Nazi regime, in honor of her eighty-ninth birthday. The museum announced that visitors can see the living space of Anne Frank and four other Jews from July 1942 until the day their hiding place was discovered in August 1944, leading to their deportation to death camps. This virtual exhibition is organized in one of the annex buildings of the museum, allowing visitors to view it online without going to the museum. Ronald Leopold, the director of the Anne Frank House Museum in Amsterdam, stated that the virtual exhibition offers an 'immersive experience' of the rooms located behind a house next to the canal in Amsterdam, where Anne Frank wrote her diary. Only Otto Frank, Anne's father, survived the war. Anne and her sister were killed in the Bergen-Belsen forced labor camp. Anne Frank was 15 years old at the time of her death. After World War II, Otto Frank published his daughter's diary. The first English edition of this book, titled 'The Diary of a Young Girl,' was published in 1952. This book has become a symbol of 'hope and resilience' and has been translated and published in dozens of languages, including Persian. Anne Frank has become one of the most prominent victims of the Holocaust perpetrated by Nazi Germany. The hiding place of the Frank family and four others has been a museum in Amsterdam since 1960. This virtual visit to the Anne Frank House Museum is free and can be downloaded in seven different languages from the Oculus Store for Samsung devices or Oculus Go phones. Individuals who are unable to visit the existing exhibition in the small rooms of the museum due to disabilities or physical limitations can now view it through this virtual exhibition. According to the Anne Frank House Museum, this exhibition is set to be transferred to the Anne Frank centers in Berlin and New York later this year.