Lynda Bureau

Review of Anne Frank House

Having seen many Holocaust movies and of course al...

Having seen many Holocaust movies and of course all the Anne Frank movies out there, my husband and I were utterly disappointed from this museum experience. I understand that Otto Frank didn't want to keep any of the furniture, especially because the Nazis confiscated it, but the rooms are practically bare and except for the sink in the kitchen and toilet in the bathroom, there was nothing to see. I do think they should have put replicas of the furniture or at least some pictures from the numerous movies depicting the lives of the 8 Jews in the attic.

The only thing we could see in the rooms were repetitive portrait pictures of the people who lived there and mostly pictures of Anne. There were short explanations underneath each of them and the exact same text was repeated on the audio devices we were given at the entrance. We weren't allowed to take any pictures either (not that there was anything left to take pictures of)... Not to mention the fact that it was way too crowded and we could hardly breathe inside.

I just feel like they could have done so much more to show the world what life looked like for those poor Holocaust victims, but what they did instead was just to take our money under the false pretense that it's "definitely the Netherland's number 1 attraction".