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The diaries of Anne Frank 'come home'
News item | 11-06-2009
From 1 November 2009, all the diaries and writings of Anne Frank will be on display in the house in which they were written, the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. The NIOD will permanently give all the writings on loan to the Anne Frank House.
The Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD), The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), the Anne Frank House (AFH), and minister Ronald Plasterk (Education, Culture and Science) signed an agreement to this effect on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the birth of Anne Frank.
Minister Plasterk: 'Anne Frank is world famous, and it is wonderful that the Dutch nation and visitors from all over the globe can now for the first time see the original versions of her complete works, and, moreover, view them in the house where she wrote them.'
Diaries
After the concluding of the new agreement all Anne's writings will be on permanent display in a newly designed exhibition hall in the Anne Frank House: not only the red-checked diary but also the second and third diaries, the Tales from the Secret Annexe (Verhaaltjesboek) and the Favourite Quotes Notebook (Mooie Zinnenboek).
Forty of the several hundred, very brittle, loose sheets on which Anne rewrote her diary from May 1944, will be on permanent alternating display.
Agreement
The aim of the new loan agreement is to facilitate the optimum exhibition of the diaries and writings for a large audience.
In this way, justice is done to the great significance of Anne's writings as part of the Dutch cultural heritage. It is also important that the value of the writings as archival documents and subjects of scholarly research remains safeguarded.
Otto Frank, Anne Frank's father, died in 1980. In his will he left to the National Institute for War documentation (RIOD, now the NIOD) all Anne's diaries and writings and the photograph album they made in the secret annexe. The NIOD has regularly loaned diaries to the Anne Frank House.