Anne Frank

Anne Frank and her family were jews in WW11. They decided to hide instead of trying to flee the country, which would probably end up with them being caught and killed. Anne's family and a few neighbours (there were 8 people in total) hid in the back of a warehouse that was part of where her father used to work. They lived in a total of 6 rooms, which were actually spacier then I would have thought. With the help of her fathers' boss and a few helpful others, they managed to remain safe for over 2 years. Then on August the 4th, 1944 they were found out by the police (who gave them up was never discovered). Annes sister, Margot, died soon after, followed by her mother, in a Jewish camp. Finally, only 1 month before liberation, Anne died too. Only Annes' father Otto lived through the war.
During the war Anne kept diaries about her life in hide out, which the building they called The Secret Annexe. She also wrote stories and poems. She even started writing a book titled 'The Secret Annexe' based on her diaries after the Prime Minister announced that he would want diaries and letter refering to the war when the war was over.
After the family had been taken away, one of the familys' helpers came back to keep what belongings she could in case she found the family again after the war. Among these things, she found a crate with all of Anne's writings in it. When it became clear the Anne had died, she gave these writings to Otto. Otto answered his late daughters wish to be a writer, and he published a compilation of her diaries a few years later.
The house itself is quite drab and unfurnshed (as Otto meant it to be), but they gave portions of Annes' diary pages to read, as well as quotations on the wall to read, and some artifacts from the war. Anne had had a great interest in movie stars, so she had had several posters and such on the wall of her room, and Otto had cut them down when they had been doing renovations, and he put them back exactly where they had been when the renos were done. Since the rooms were unfunished, the people who ran the museum made little models of the rooms so you could see what the house had originally looked like.
I bought the original book of the publication of Anne Franks Diary. But at the book store there were actually several different variations, including one of just her poems and stories. All in all, quite an interesting trip.