Anne Frank's Museum Opens To The Public In Today's History, May 3, 1960
JAKARTA History today, 64 years ago, May 3, 1960, the Museum of Anne Frank's House located in Prinsengracht, Amsterdam, the Netherlands was opened to the public. The presence of the museum can provide an overview of how Anne Frank and other Jewish families are hiding from the pursuit of Nazi German soldiers.
Previously, life as a Jew was once considered a big problem. A teenager Anne Frank and her family felt it in the Nazi era of Germany. Anne also hides in a house where her parents' office incidentally lives.
The politics of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany made Jews miserable. Attempts to destroy Jews in the 2nd World War emerged. Jews continue to be hunted anywhere throughout the conquest power of Nazi Germany.
This condition scared Anne Frank. This young Jew who was born in Frankfurt June 13, 1929, began to view the German Nazis as dangerous. His family 'Father and mother' Otto and Edith Frank took Anne away from Germany to start a new life in the Netherlands in 1933.
Otto then took the initiative to start a new life. Businesses selling butter and spice seasonings for meat cooking were carried out. The business is headquartered at home in Prinsengracht 263. Problems arose. Nazi Germany began to occupy the Netherlands from 1940.
They began to limit the activities of Jews who then began to try to destroy him. Anne Frank and her family and another Jewish family Herman van Pels, their wife and two sons 'choose to hide from 1942-1944.
They are hiding in Otto's office. Incidentally, the office has been prepared with a secret room. The secret annex, his name. The room can be accessed through shifting the bookcase. They can also get food from Otto employees.
Anne also poured out a lot of feelings through writing in her daily book. The record is getting deeper and more like reflection. Problems arose after two years of hiding. In fact, someone leaked the place where the Jewish family was hiding.
They were also transported to the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Anne and her mother did not survive. His father, Otto, was the only one alive. Luckily Anne's daily record was saved by her father's employee, Miep Gies. After that, the daily record was given to Otto and published in 1947.
"But Anne Frank, however, is a symbol of human rights discrimination," said Geeskelien Wolters, Erasmus Director Huis Jakarta. In heaven, Anne Frank may hold her daily notes while still shedding tears because xenophobia and racism have not faded even today. Everywhere in the hemisphere, also in Indonesia. Because of that, Anne Frank's sad story is history for the present, "said Seno Joko Suyono and his friends in Tempo magazine entitled Anne's Daily Note Frank, Holocaust, and Historical Controversy (2001).
Popularity from Anne's daily records globally. Like people feel the pain of being hunted by Nazi Germany. Living day by day with feelings of anxiety. Otto immediately built the Anne Frank Foundation in 1953.
After that, Otto and activists tried to secure the house that used to be his hiding place from the pursuit of the Nazis. The Anne Frank Foundation also intends to build a museum inside the Prinsengracht 263 building. Anne Frank's Museum, his name.
The museum was opened to the public for the first time on May 3, 1960. The presence of the museum was enthusiastically welcomed. Visitors flocked to come. In fact, visitors to the museum can reach millions of people every year.
With the number of visitors increasing to 1.3 million each year, from one million in 2010, Anne Frank's House begins to take into account its extraordinary popularity dimension. Many young and foreign visitors flock here to have little knowledge of the Holocaust.
"This museum and several other museums dedicated to Jewish life are looking for new ways to overcome the declining understanding of World War II. An event that has also led to genocide that claimed the lives of six million Jews in Europe," said Nina Siegal in writing on The New York Times page entitled Anne Frank Who? Museums Combat Ignorance about the Holocaust (2017).