A private tour covering Anne Frank's real story and Amsterdam's genuine Jewish history.
A private tour for your group only, real stops at the Westerkerk, the Anne Frank House exterior, and genuine Jewish history sites.
This is a private tour for your group only. Real stops include the Westerkerk, the Anne Frank House exterior, and Amsterdam's genuine, documented Jewish history.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Meeting point in central Amsterdam.
Genuine, documented WWII history.
Genuine historic church.
No other travelers.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private tour for your group only, real stops at the Westerkerk, the Anne Frank House exterior, and genuine Jewish history sites. This is a private tour for your group only. Real stops include the Westerkerk, the Anne Frank House exterior, and Amsterdam's genuine, documented Jewish history.
The real story behind this tour is as well-documented as any from the Second World War. On July 6, 1942, Anne Frank's family went into hiding in the "Achterhuis" — the Secret Annex — a concealed set of rooms behind her father Otto's business premises on the Prinsengracht. They lived there for 761 days, sharing the cramped space with four other people in hiding, until they were discovered and arrested in a raid on August 4, 1944. Anne and her sister Margot were deported first to Auschwitz and later to Bergen-Belsen, where both died during a typhus epidemic in the final weeks of the war, most sources placing their deaths in March 1945 — just weeks before the camp's liberation.
The real Westerkerk stands just around the corner from the Annex, and its bells feature in Anne's own diary — she wrote about finding comfort in hearing them from her hiding place. Seeing the church in person connects a detail from the diary to an actual, unchanged piece of the city.
Amsterdam's own Jewish community gives this history a wider, equally real context. By 1940, roughly 100,000 Jewish residents lived in the city, and more than half of the approximately 140,000 Jews then living in the Netherlands called Amsterdam home. The Holocaust's toll on this community was devastating — historians estimate that around 75 to 80 percent of the Netherlands' prewar Jewish population was murdered, the highest proportion of any occupied country in Western Europe.
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