Anne Frank House to display actual diaries

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Anne Frank House to display actual diaries

The Anne Frank House museum will now permanently display the diaries and other writings of Anne Frank.

Closeup of a facsimile of Anne Frank's diary. Visitors to the Anne Frank House museum will now be able to see her actual diaries and other writings.

Postcards of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, top right, Princess Margaret, bottom right and a 1943 photo of the Dutch Royal family in exile in Ottawa, Canada, are seen on the wall above Anne Franks' desk, in The Secret Annex at the Anne Frank House museum. Spokeswoman Annemarie Bekker says it has restored 52 photographs of celebrities that the Jewish teenager pasted on the wall of her room to cheer herself up while in hiding from the Nazis during World War II.

Dutch education minister Ronald Plasterk poses with a facsimile of Anne Frank's diary during a press conference at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The museum says it will permanently exhibit her diaries and other writings as part of activities commemorating the 80th anniversary of her birth on June 12, 1929. Frank died aged 15 in a concentration camp, but her posthumously published diary has made her a symbol of all Jews killed in World War II.

The Anne Frank House museum is located in Amsterdam and draws visitors from all over the world.

Hillary Rodham Clinton writes about her experiences after a visit to the Anne Frank House in 1997.

A facsimile of Anne Frank's diary displayed with art work in the background at the Anne Frank House museum.

Anne Frank is seen writing in this April 1941 photo. Her posthumously published diary and other writings have been an inspiration to millions of people worldwide.

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Closeup of a facsimile of Anne Frank's diary. Visitors to the Anne Frank House museum will now be able to see her actual diaries and other writings.

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