From 1942 to 1944, eight people had lived in hiding in the Secret Annex of an office building in Amsterdam; the most well-known of them was Annelies Marie Frank (Anne Frank). Her diary, later to be published, chronicled her life during the German occupation and her time with her family and four other people in hiding until her last entry on August 1, 1944. On August 4, 1944, the families were discovered and arrested, sent off to concentration camps; only Otto Frank, Anne’s father, survived. On May 3, 1960, the house was opened as a museum in remembrance of the families who hid there and other holocaust victims.
