Visitors can tour the little hiding place where Anne Frank and her family hid during World War II in an interactive virtual field trip. Viewers can learn about the everyday problems, aspirations, and daily lives of the residents through the use of detailed 3D renderings and audio narrations. Every area of the house, from the secret door beneath the bookshelves to Anne’s bedroom and the attic where she wrote her famous diary, conveys an emotional story. The virtual tour provides an effective way of teaching and remembrance, guaranteeing that the experiences of the Holocaust and Anne’s legacy will never be forgotten.
The tour can be found at https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/secret-annex/
Who was Hiding and Who Helped
Taking a Look Inside
Anne decorated her room with pictures of Hollywood stars, art, and royalty. These scene, you can really imagine her sitting at her desk and pouring her heart out onto the pages of her diary.
As the Tour Comes to an End
The virtual tour is an excellent educational resource. It helps teachers to make history interesting and approachable, encouraging critical thinking, empathy, and conversations on the value of tolerating differences and speaking out against injustice.
Anne Frank House’s Secret Annex is a praiseworthy project that guarantees the legacy of Anne Frank and the lessons learned from the Holocaust for coming generations.
This virtual tour is extremely interesting and really opens up your eyes to how these people were living. You don’t realize the severity of the situation until you see it for yourself. Virtual tours like this one, and the 9/11 put a location and a picture to the stories we’ve all been told. The screenshots in this specific blog showing the btour is really helpful rather than just telling people to use the link and see for themselves. It gives us a sort of sneak peek of what the website looks like before we do the tour ourselves.