A full-scale replica of the secret annex where Anne Frank penned her famous diary has opened in New York City.

The secret annex – one of the most famous dwellings in history, thanks to Frank’s best-selling published diary – can now be explored remotely, in New York.

The entire installation aims to examine Anne Frank’s life — and death — with a scope not often found in other treatments of this chapter in history.

Replica: How do you recreate a world-famous symbol? An exhibition on the life of Anne Frank will open in New York on January 27, 2025, eighty years after the liberation of Auschwitz. The rooms of the people in hiding are impeccably recreated.

Anne Frank House is bringing a recreation of the Secret Annex—where Anne Frank and her family hid during the Holocaust—to New York.

“Anne Frank: The Exhibition” features a replica of the hidden annex where eight Jewish people, including Anne and her family, lived for two years between July 1942 and August 1944 before they were discovered and sent to death camps.

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 ever, visitors can explore a full-scale replica of the hiding place where Anne Frank penned her famous diary.