Amsterdam, Anne Frank House

At the end of the day we visited the Anne Frank House. We invited a friend we met earlier in the day to come with us. Hank is twenty-something years old and is on his second day working at the hostel. He has lived primarily in Papua New Guinea and West Africa (I cannot remember what country.) Oh, the Ivory Coast. His parents are missionaries and his sister worked here a few years back, so now he is here following in her footsteps. The hostel employs quite a bit of young people in exchange for room and board, or most of the room and board. They hold daily bible studies and daily evening prayers in the dining room/common area. So, back to the Anne Frank museum.

“Anne Frank was one of the millions of victims of the persecution of the Jews during World War II. She lived in Germany when, In 1933, Hitler came to power and installed an anti-Jewish regime there. For their own safety, the Jewish Frank family fled to the Netherlands. However, In May 1940, the German army occupied the Netherlands and repressive measures against the Jews followed here as well. The Frank family hoped to escape these by going into hiding.”

For more information on Anne Frank visit Wikipedia