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Virtual Walking Tour: The Last Walk of Anne Frank

Anne Frank is one of Amsterdam’s most famous residents, and every year millions of people travel to the city to see where Anne and her family hid from the Nazis during WWII. On this livestreamed, virtual tour, we will walk along the last part of the route that the Frank family took on the journey to their hiding place. As we walk around the area, we will see the outside of the house where Anne and her family were in hiding and the beautiful Prinsengracht canal. Using Anne’s own words, we will learn about the secret annex and the impact her story has had on people throughout the world. Co-presented with  Wowzitude .

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Anne Frank House VR

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A virtual recreation of the hiding place where Anne Frank, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family were forced to go into hiding to escape persecution from the Nazis in 1942. For more than two years, the Franks and four others would live in the “Secret Annex” of an old office building in Amsterdam, sharing the burden of living in hiding.

The app offers two different experiences: a story and a tour mode. The story mode launches in a dark room and is an emotionally touching mini documentary where pictures and documents from Anne’s life float around as a narrator talks about Anne and the inhabitants of the annex.

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Tour mode is a free-roaming experience of the secret annex with narrated passages from her diary. The first time you launch, your only option is to start with story mode. Once this is complete, you can wander around and take the tour experience.

The attention to detail is stunning. Take your time in each room. It’s not just the visuals, but really thinking of spending day after day in this space. Not even thinking of the psychological stress from the constant fear of being caught, being trapped in a few rooms with a group of people would be a trial for anyone.

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How the developer summarizes the experience (direct quote): The award winning Anne Frank House VR offers a unique and emotional insight into these two years. Experience the world-famous Secret Annex in a never before seen way. Travel back to the years of the Second World War and wander through the rooms of the Annex that housed the group of 8 Jewish people as they hid from the Nazis. Immerse yourself in Anne’s thoughts as you traverse each faithfully recreated room, thanks to the power of VR, and find out what happened to the Annex’ brave inhabitants.

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Anne Frank’s Last Walk & Experience the Secret Annex in Virtual Reality

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We provide a great alternative that allows you to experience the hiding place of the Frank family. Join our innovative small group tour of Anne Frank’s Last Walk, with a Virtual Reality Tour of the secret annex.

Anne Frank’s Last Walk

Anne Frank is Amsterdam’s most famous resident. Every year millions of people travel to Amsterdam to see where Anne and her family hid from the Nazis during WW2. In this small group tour, we will walk along the last 600m of the route Anne and her family took on their journey to their hiding place. Sadly enough the walk to their final home.

Together, we will travel back in time to the Amsterdam of WWII and experience the emotion and hope of Anne Frank during the dark days of the war as her story unfolds.

Westerkerk and the Diaries

As we walk around the local area we’ll see the famous Westerkerk, the outside of the house where Anne and her family were hiding for over 2 years and the beautiful Prinsengracht.

Using Anne’s own words from her diary, we will learn about Anne and the ‘secret annex’. We will see what she could see from her refuge and the influence her story has had on people in the Netherlands and the rest of the world. Rather than a sombre story of loss and sorrow, this tour is also about tolerance and hope, because, as Anne wrote: “Don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains.”

Anne Frank House, see the secret annex in Virtual Reality 

We will finish our tour at a cafe near Anne Frank House. Here you will have a drink and then enter into the Secret Annex. We will enter via the magic of a virtual reality recreation (designed by the Anne Frank Foundation). As you enter through the famous bookcase to the secret hiding place of the family Frank, you will find the rooms as though the Franks were still living here.

Unlike the actual house, the virtual house has all of the furniture and belongings in place. It gives you a true feel for what it was like to live there in 1942-44. There will be no crowds of people. You will have the virtual house to yourself to explore at your own pace. We believe this is as close to the real thing as you can get, without stepping foot in the house. Ideal for people with mobility issues (the house does not have a lift or disabled access), or those who haven’t been able to get tickets.

“The sun is shining, the sky is deep blue, there’s a magnificent breeze and I’m longing — really longing — for everything: conversation, freedom, friends, being alone.” – Anne Frank, February 12th, 1944

Details : Meeting point:  Max Euweplein 36, 1017 MB Amsterdam. We will meet next to the small statue on Max Euweplein in front of Wagamama restaurant.

( Google Maps ) Tour duration: 2 hours

Included in the tour: – Tour Guide (small group) – A drink at our favourite local cafe – Virtual Tour of the Secret Annex with our VR headsets

Not included in the tour: – Tickets to the Anne Frank House – Souvenirs

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Anne Frank House VR Offers Virtual Tour of Hiding Place

VR Tour Offers Intimate Look Inside Frank’s Amsterdam Shelter

On Tuesday June 12th, the new VR experience Anne Frank House VR was released to honor the memory of Anne Frank, the revered German-born girl who was one of millions of European Jews murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust and whose writing in  The Diary of a Young Girl was discovered and published after her death to become one of the Holocaust’s most moving and haunting accounts.

Frank, who died in Nazi captivity at the Bergen-Belsen concentration at age 15 in 1945, would have turned 89 on Tuesday. From 1942 onward, Frank was kept sheltered in the “Secret Annex,” a hidden partition of a house in Amsterdam where the Franks and another Jewish family, the van Pels, lived in secret with the assistance of sympathetic Dutch helpers until their betrayal and capture by the Nazis in 1944.

Anne Frank House VR allows users the world over to experience in intimate detail a virtual tour of the house where Anne Frank spent her final years with her family and composed her diary, allowing for an unprecedented peek into the location as it appeared during her life.

Above: A photorealistic re-creation of Anne Frank’s room in the Secret Annex as seen in Anne Frank House VR. Via annefrank.org.

Developed in cooperation with Force Field VR and Oculus VR , the Anne Frank House museum released Anne Frank House VR as a free download available on the Oculus Store and compatible with the Samsung Gear VR and recently released Oculus Go headsets.

While the Secret Annex at the Anne Frank House remains empty, the VR tour shows a faithful re-creation of how the space looked when the Franks and van Pels lived inside. Nazi soldiers tossed the hiding place, stole and destroyed most of its contents in a raid and it remains empty to this day, in keeping with the wishes of Anne Frank’s father and the only one of the Secret Annex’s eight inhabitants to survive Nazi execution, Otto Frank.

With the release of Anne Frank House VR , however, the video recreates the Secret Annex in lifelike detail following painstaking research, portraying the rooms as accurately as possible down to Anne Frank’s cluttered desk bearing the diary in which the young girl shared her hopes and fears during hiding.

Accompanied by a multimedia presentation on the Anne Frank’s life and her time in the Secret Annex, the tour takes about 25 minutes, and offers multi-lingual support for users in Dutch, English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Hebrew.

According to Ronald Leopold, executive director of the Anne Frank House:

“The VR tour gives people all around the world the opportunity to explore Anne Frank’s hiding place as it was in July 1942 to August 1944, the period when Anne Frank was forced into hiding and wrote her diary. The tour offers an immersive experience. Our heartfelt thanks go out to Force Field VR, which developed the tour, and to Oculus, which helped to finance the project.”

According to the Anne Frank House, the VR tour will be installed as an exhibit at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, offering the virtual tour on-site to visitors with limited mobility or those wishing to see the Secret Annex as it was during Anne Frank’s life. The virtual experience is also offered on location at the Anne Frank Zentrum in Berlin and the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect in New York later this year.

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Excellent read, I just passed this onto a friend who was doing a little research on that. And he actually bought me lunch since I found it for him smile So let me rephrase that: Thanks for lunch!

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Introduction to Digital History

A course page for HIST 209: Introduction to Digital History

Virtual Tour of The Anne Frank House

Julia Needham

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This website was created by the actual organization/ museum that owns and runs the Anne Frank House. This website gives the user the ability to take themselves on a private tour of the original annex and is replicated from the ’40s. Located in Amsterdam, this allows its viewers who might be fortunate enough to travel to see the house in person. This flexibility communicates to the user that it’s not just for those who can afford to visit the museum, it’s an educational tool for everyone to access.

The virtual project is complete, and its graphics are very realistic. Exploring the different rooms, you’re able to go further and look at actual copies of Anne’s diary, or the famous attic. This website gives the user more to look at because, from my own personal experience, some of these rooms were closed off. This gives the benefit of being able to explore more rooms than the actual museum itself. 

The website explains how the Anne Frank Museum has done so much historical research. Piecing rooms together, they analyzed different materials used in the rooms so they could give an accurate replica of the annex. Otto Frank, who is the father, was the only surviving member of the Frank family. 

Pictured here , is when the museum opened in the 1960s. An emotional Otto Frank stands where his family used to be. 

The “target” audience is everyone. The website features links to educational resources about antisemitism and stereotypes. It’s important for everyone to be educated on this matter, but the Anne Frank Museum website also provides some. There is also a link to signing up schools to be able to go visit, educating the younger generation about what the Holocaust is and why it’s so important to study and to see it first hand. Although I couldn’t find the exact date of when this was published, it does look and feel very modern which makes me believe it’s been in the last four or five years. 

Overall, the look of the website feels organized and clean. It’s easy to navigate and they give an appropriate amount of text rather than it being overwhelming to read (although it’s a very important topic to cover in depth). The argument here is to spread awareness of the Frank family and the similar trauma that other families faced. They highlight how normal and relatable Anne is. Showing viewers this, allows them to spread awareness about antisemitism and shoot down stereotypes. They were innocent people, who were killed out of hatred by brainwashed, immoral German soldiers. 

Since this website is very easy to navigate, this helps with the digital divide. Any age group can navigate this website, with its simplistic design, it can be navigated by just about anyone. What I also find extremely important is that it’s available in 20 different languages. They successfully made use of accessibility by giving virtual tours, easy to navigate, and providing multiple languages so everyone can learn the history of Anne Frank and her impact. 

There’s not so much an argument being made with this virtual tour, but more of an exploratory feel to it. The purpose of this virtual tour is supposed to spread awareness as well as educate about the Holocaust as a whole through the eyes of Anne Frank. Since Anne Frank is recognized for her diary and writing about her experience in the Holocaust, people tend to see her as a symbol of that time period. The virtual tour gives a POV stance, and the viewer has the mobility to look at the home without actually having to travel to Amsterdam. 

My evaluation of this project is that it’s such a useful tool for children and grandparents. They get the message across and share the life of Anne in a visual, educational way. Since it’s a hands-on project with its visuals, it leaves an impression on the viewer. Me, I’m a visual learner and I feel like I retained more information from this website than from reading a 20-page research article. 

The virtual tour has so many strengths. You’re able to feel like you’re there in the ‘40s, although not a positive time period. The POV is the feature that makes this website feel so real. There’s no lagging or graininess from the graphics, everything flows nicely when scrolling or moving around the cursor. For example, let’s walk into Anne’s room . They give you the option to be able to explore more in-depth, like historical artifacts of Anne’s. They show what she had on her wall and give more of an explanation about her personality, and what she liked. 

All in all, they did a very successful job of showing what Anne would’ve seen back in the 1940s. A goal that is intended is for the viewer to have a POV type of interaction with the tour, and knowing her story makes it feel eerier. They achieved their goals I would say and they did a great job doing so. It’s super interactive, accurate, and easy to use. 

Home . Anne Frank Website. (2023, January 15). Retrieved April 14, 2023, from https://www.annefrank.org/en/

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