Annefrakhuis, is a museum located in the area Prinsengracht, where a young Jewish girl used with her family and other a few acquaintances as a hiding place during the World War II. The house is famous with the bookcase located right in front of its entrance. The apartment was used as an office, and entrance to the hiding place was through a door hidden behind this bookcase.

As a result of the diary written by this little young girl, Anne Frank, the house has a worlwide fame, and whenever you go to the museum, you'll have to wait for a long queue no matter if it's winter or summer. We waited! For almost 1 hour, at outside, when it was cold, but yet it was nice to see this house by our own eyes.

The diary of this young girl is also sold in the museum, that's where I bought two books for myself; one for myself in English and the latter one is for my dad in German. The book is all covered with what Anne Frank had written, but there are some different editions of this book, once edited by her father and the next time edited by the publication company as I remember, but I'm sure you can find the complete one in this museum.
I recommend you to find the book from somewhere else before going there, and read the story. That will help you to feel every single word you read in this impressive book. The story is not impressive itself, but while reading the book, you get accustomed to this family, to the young girl especially, and feel what she feels, experience what she experiences; all the fears and joy she had, and eventually when you come to the end of the story, unfortunate ending makes you sad though the book mostly made you smile before thanks to Anne Frank's sense of humour. 

Anne Frank

Anne Frank's Hiding House

All the family's fears, agony, their homelessness, their quarrels, their love (especially the love Anne Frank and the only boy in the house had), witnessing the Second World War and the difficulties that Jewish people had to bear and further... They all are in this book. After reading the story of Annefrankhuis, I'm sure the house will look much more interesting to you.

Seeing all the walls that surrounded them in very old times and posters handed to the wall by Anne Frank will make you feel weird. The bookcase still stands in front of the entrance, so you'll have a chance to see it with the original files that were put into. Everything is so real and everything is so much like a fairytale, it will be hard to believe this story was real and these people were alive before, living in this house, hiding behind a door, under the dark curtains, waiting for the war to be over...