Experience Anne Frank's everyday life in hiding at first hand

Anne Frank's diary is one of the best-known records of a Holocaust victim. A new 25-minute virtual reality tour now offers the opportunity to relive life in the girl's hiding place.

The Amsterdam museum dedicated to Anne Frank's life is launching a new Virtual reality tour. This gives users a first-hand insight into the former hiding place, where Anne Frank's family and four other Jews hid from July 1942 to August 1944 before being deported to the concentration camp. Only Anne's father, Otto Frank, survived the war. Anne and her sister died in the Bergen-Belsen camp. Anne was 15.

This project allows people all over the world to visit the hiding place for the first time, without visiting the museum directly. Anne Frank House Director Ronald Leopold said the tour "offers an immersive experience" of the rooms where Anne wrote her diary.

The new virtual tour is free and can be downloaded in seven languages from the Oculus Store for Samsung Gear and Oculus Go headsets. People with reduced mobility who visit the Amsterdam museum but are unable to visit the small rooms will now be able to experience them in virtual reality. The VR experience will be released later this year at Anne Frank centres in Berlin and New York, the museum said.

You can find a short teaser video here.

Source: World / nytimes