Anne Frank’s Amsterdam is an educational virtual tour through Amsterdam following in Anne Frank’s footsteps and those of the Jewish community. It will reveal an in-depth picture of the occupied city and its inhabitants during World War II and through its education project will make history come alive.
Both at home via a website, or on the street with a mobile phone (and in due course at school with a digital blackboard) places and events in the city can be explored which are inseparable from the story of Anne Frank and World War II. The occupation of the city and the persecution of the Jews come to life online by projecting historical images onto the streets of Amsterdam today.
Then and Now; the stories behind the photographs
With these very special photographs you can stand on the same spot where history was made; where Dutch Nazis welcomed German troops to the city or where SS leader Himmler spoke to Amsterdam’s new police battalion on the Museumplein or where Anne posed for her father’s camera. This link between the past and the present heightens the experience and shows the city in a different way. It forms a backdrop for historical events which come to life.
