Cris Toala Olivares/Anne Frank House
Visitors at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, where the Frank family hid in a secret annex during World War II.
By SCOTT SAYARE
Published: June 16, 2013
AMSTERDAM — In a letter to her grandmother in 1940, composed before she went into hiding here, 11-year-old Annelies Frank recorded a detail that surely seemed of little consequence at the time.
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Cris Toala Olivares/Anne Frank House
On view at the Anne Frank House museum, her first diary.
“Daddy is very busy in his office,” wrote the young correspondent, in a script already elegant. “He is moving to the Prinsengracht, and I’ll go and fetch him from the tram as often as possible.”