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The '''Anne Frank House''' ({{lang-nl|Anne Frank Huis}}) is a [[writer's house]] and [[biographical museum]] dedicated to [[Judaism|Jewish]] wartime diarist [[Anne Frank]]. The building is located on a canal called the [[Prinsengracht]], close to the [[Westerkerk]], in [[Amsterdam-Centrum|central Amsterdam]] in the Netherlands.
During [[World War II]], when the Netherlands was [[Netherlands in World War II|occupied]] by Germany, Anne Frank hid from [[Nazism|Nazi]] persecution with her family and four other people in hidden rooms, in the rear building, of the 17th-century [[canal house]], later known as the ''Secret Annex'' ({{lang-nl|Achterhuis}}). She did not survive the war but [[The Diary of a Young Girl|her wartime diary]] was published in 1947. Ten years later the [[Anne Frank Foundation]] was established to protect the property from developers who wanted to demolish the block.
The entire museum, which occupies the three adjacent buildings on the street front of [[Prinsengracht]] 263 to 267,<ref name="location"/> opened on 3 May 1960. It preserves the hiding place (the ''Secret Annex'' at rear of 263), with the other buildings expanding the permanent exhibition on the life and times of Anne Frank, and has an exhibition space about all forms of [[persecution]] and [[discrimination]]. In 2017, the museum had 1.27 million visitors and was the [[List of most visited museums in the Netherlands|third most visited museum in the Netherlands]], after the [[Van Gogh Museum]] and the [[Rijksmuseum]].
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