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Article: Anne Frank flat: a new home for refugee writers.(FEATURES)(CURRENTS)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- March 14, 2005
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Byline: Frank Renout Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor
AMSTERDAM -- Last year, roughly 936,000 people walked along the Amsterdam canals to visit the Anne Frank House, the hiding place where Anne Frank wrote the major part of her famous diary during World War II.
But only a few miles away in the quiet southern part of the city, the apartment where Anne Frank lived for nine years before the German occupation remains unknown to most of the outside world.
That is about to change. The apartment, built in the early 1930s, was recently purchased by a local housing association. The apartment is now being redecorated and will soon serve as a ...