Life of Anne Frank and World War II Walking Tour


By mid-1940, Amsterdam was under Nazi occupation and the city’s large Jewish population was directly in their crosshairs. As Hitler ramped up the community’s persecution, 13-year old Anne Frank and her family went into hiding, living for two years concealed in the secret annex of a Dutch canal house. The diary she kept in captivity, which was published after Frank’s death in a concentration camp in 1945, is one of the most enduring records of the Jewish experience in World War II. An expert guide brings it to life on this two-hour walking tour, winding through the Jewish Cultural Quarter in which the Franks lived, visiting sites like the Portuguese Synagogue and the Jewish Historical Museum, and telling stories about the neighborhood’s history before, during and after World War II. It’s a sobering journey that still resonates today, more than 75 years later.