And yet, for all that, Anne Frank remains something of an abstraction, especially for the many who have never trekked to Amsterdam and the Anne Frank House museum, which houses hundreds of artifacts and personal items of the Frank family. It also contains the infamous secret annex hidden behind a bookcase, which has been carefully preserved.

For the first time outside of Amsterdam, an exhibition reconstructs Anne’s hiding place during the devastation of the Holocaust.

The BriefThe meticulously recreated Anne Frank House offers visitors in New York City an immersive glimpse into the lives of Frank and her family during their two years in hiding.This first-of-its-kind exhibition in the U.

The display is part of the first-ever full-scale replica of Frank’s annex — one that aims to introduce new audiences to the most famous victim of the Holocaust at a time when anxiety is high over whether its lessons have been learned.

For 761 terrifying days, Anne Frank hid in the stifling quarters of a secret annex in Amsterdam, fearing that at any moment the Nazis who occupied the Netherlands during World War II would discover her hiding place. She could never go outside and had to remain quiet to avoid detection.