The Achterhuis is the Dutch term for the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam.
Anne Frank's diary's original title was Het Achterhuis. This can be translated to The Diary.
het generally means the, or a third person "it", etc.The hiding place behind the bookcase where Anne Frank and her family hid is known as the "Achterhuis".It is Dutch. If you are looking at a Dutch copy of Anne Frank's diary, it it titled "Anne Frank: Het Achterhuis". achterhuis is one word :)
It means "secret annex house" and refers to the hiding place of Anne Frank and her family in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Anne's name for it was not really special, it was literal. Anne called it - and intended to title her hoped-for publication after the war - "Het Achterhuis", which literally means "the back house". That particular part of buildings that had it had been called "het achterhuis" for centuries - Anne did not invent that. It was one of the original translators that rendered "het achterhuis" as "the Secret Annex", to give it an air of mystery. Following Anne's wishes, Otto named the first published edition of the diary "Het Achterhuis", but almost all succesive editions have been titled "Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl", or "The Diary of Anne Frank".
Anne Frank's father, Otto Frank, published her diary in 1947. The diary was first published in Dutch under the title "Het Achterhuis" ("The Secret Annex").
wiemer, germany Anne Frank lived in Amsterdam, Holland her father owned a business there. Later when the war broke out during 1943 they had to hide from the Nazis in an attic above a warehouse, they did this for 2 years before they were betrayed. You can read the ' "Diary of Anne Frank" which she wrote, translated from the Dutch "Het Achterhuis"
In "The Diary of Anne Frank," the girls, including Anne and her sister Margot, hid in the secret annex of Otto Frank's business premises in Amsterdam, known as the "hiding place" or "achterhuis." They concealed themselves behind a movable bookcase, which served as the entrance to their hidden space. This location provided them refuge from the Nazi persecution during World War II.
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Hans Achterhuis was born in 1942.
Anne Frank's three nicknames were "Anne," "Annelies," and "Annelein."
Both the house where Anne Frank used to live as well as the diary she wrote are called 'het Achterhuis' (literally translated 'the back house') 'the secret annex' translated = het geheime bijgebouw (literally 'the secret side building')
The people in Anne Frank's family were; Margot Frank - Anne's sister Edith Frank - Anne's mother Otto Frank - Anne's father. The family pet name for Otto was 'Pim'.