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On Summer days long lines of people, mostly foreign tourists, await anyone who wants to see 'where it all happened'. A young girl and her family lived here in hiding for several years because the outside world was no longer safe for them because they were jews. Eventually they found out that they were not safe here either. It's one of the important stories of the 20th century and the message is a highly important one, no question about that. However, think again if you really want to see this place so badly that you want to spend precious time waiting until you can get in. You'll have seen the place itself within an hour, which does keep the lines moving but also makes the fee of 6,50 euro a bit expensive. If you go, why not try the evenings, the place is open until 9 in the Summer.
I must disagree when anyone says that you absolutely MUST visit this place. As if it's politically incorrect not to. Go ahead if you want to go there, but allow me to explain why I have second feelings about it. It's more than a museum or a monument. There is an organization behind it that has made it its goal to spread the message the story of Anne Frank is telling. Good for them, if only they would stick to that. Sometimes they're crossing borders where they should not. They condemned a rightwing political party for example, even though there was nothing racist about it ("they're rightwing and therefore scary, but not racist" to quote them). I wouldn't have voted for that party anyway but I don't need some club to tell me that I can't and I definitely don't need them to generalize like this. Also, they have cooperated with CIDI in the past, a very biased pro-Israel/anti-Palestine organization which is not devoid of racism itself, which really makes me wonder what the true message of Anne Frank is to them. They definitely have their own definition of "racism". A matter of double standards?
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