The diary
Excerpts, film and family photographs.
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The Anne Frank Zentrum in Berlin is the sole German partner of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. Its presence in Berlin specifically is not arbitrary: Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt in 1929 and spent her earliest years in Germany before her family fled to the Netherlands to escape Nazism — so the story begins here rather than there. The permanent exhibition tells her life through her diary, filmed excerpts and family photographs, but it does something further: it connects her story to contemporary questions aimed at younger visitors about discrimination, exclusion and asylum today. That educational purpose is the centre's core work, and it receives school groups continuously. Its location is striking: it sits inside the rear courtyards at the Hackesche Hofe, in the same alley as the Otto Weidt workshop museum for the blind — a building whose owner hid Jewish workers from deportation. The alley as a whole is therefore unusually dense historically, and both can be visited in two hours.
Excerpts, film and family photographs.
Questions about exclusion today.
Rosenthaler Strasse 39, 10178 Berlin
Otto Weidt's Workshop for the BlindThis museum is the workshop itself, in its original rooms, with its walls and fl1 minute walk4.5
Hackesche HofeThe Hackesche Hofe is a complex of eight interconnected courtyards linked by pas1 minute walk4.6
James-Simon-ParkJames-Simon-Park is a small stretch of grass on the bank of the Spree, right bes4 minutes walk4.6
Berlin DungeonThe Berlin Dungeon is not a museum but a scare show. You go in with a small grou5 minutes walk4.5
Alte NationalgalerieThe Alte Nationalgalerie is a temple-like building on Berlin's Museum Island hol6 minutes walk4.4No — the Amsterdam house is the actual annexe where the family hid for two years, an irreplaceable specific place. The Berlin centre is an educational exhibition about her life and its German context, and claims nothing more. If you have been to Amsterdam, this adds the German part of the story that does not appear there.