Anne Frank Guided Walking Tour

Join the Anne Frank guided walking tour and walk with a guide through streets, past buildings and monuments that played a role in Anne Frank’s life. You will learn about the dangers Jewish families faced in Amsterdam in those days and why the Frank family eventually went into hiding. During the tour, various aspects are highlighted: tolerance, human rights and collective memory.

Anne Frank Guided Walk

START: Beursplein 5
FINISH: Anne Frank House
STARTING TIME: 13:00
DURATION: 1 hour 30 minutes
LANGUAGE: English
GROUP SIZE: max 15 people

• Cancellation up to 24 hours before the walk starts.
• Admission to the Anne Frank House is not included.

Who was Anne Frank?

Anne Frank was born on 12 June, 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany. At the age of four, she fled to Amsterdam with her parents and older sister, because life in Germany under the Nazis was becoming increasingly more difficult for Jewish families. The family went to live in an apartment on Merwedeplein in Amsterdam.

In Amsterdam, her father founded Opekta, a company specializing in products for making jams and jellies. In 1942, father Otto decided to go into hiding with his family because Amsterdam was no longer safe for Jewish families.

The hiding place was on Prinsengracht in Otto Frank’s business premises. Today, the Anne Frank Museum is located here. Here, Anne started keeping a diary in which she described daily life while the family was in hiding,

In August 1944, the family was betrayed. Anne and her sister Margot were deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp and later to Bergen-Belsen, where both died of typhoid, Anne at the age of 15 and Margot at the age of 17.

Anne’s diary was found by Miep Gies, one of the people who provided the family with food during their period in hiding. She gave it to Otto Frank, the only survivor of the family. He made sure that the diary was published, entitled ‘Het Achterhuis’ in Dutch and ‘The Diary of a Young Girl’ in English but commonly referred to as ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’.

The diary has been translated into more than 75 languages and has become one of the most widely read books worldwide.