I amsterdam - the Anne Frank House

My parents are visiting Amsterdam, the Netherlands and they have been sending me pictures via email and WhatsApp. Amsterdam is the capital and the largest city in the Netherlands. It is a beautiful city with lots of energy. There are plenty of places to visit for the youngsters and the elderly, which include the infamous Van Gogh Museum as well as the De Wallen (the Red Light District). 

                                                                   From: Colin Chung

My parents visited a museum that caught my attention. It is called the Anne Frank House, which is a museum dedicated to Jewish wartime diarist Anne Frank. During the WWII, Anne and her family were trapped in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. As the persecutions of the Jewish population increased, Anne's family and four other people decided to hid in hidden rooms in the back of the Frank office building. After two years, they were betrayed and transported to concentration camps. Anne Frank and her sister Margot eventually died in a concentration camp at the young age of 15 and 19 respectively. Only one of them survived the holocaust, which is Anne's dad Otto Frank. After Otto returned to Amsterdam after the war, he found out that his daughter's diary has been saved. Otto Frank then arranged to publish his daughter Anne's diary "The Diary of a Young Girl" in 1947.

                                                                     From: Colin Chung

Anne is now served as a symbol of the human spirit that is indomitable even in the most horrified circumstances. She wrote about her thoughts on fears, ambitions and even optimisms. The world will never forget her because of the words she left behind. Anne Frank house is a museum that acts as an exhibition space to highlight all forms of persecution and discrimination, which unfortunately is still prevailed throughout the world. (As evident as the recent Houla massacre in Syria)