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THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE SEPTEMBER 1, 1985 73 Anne Frank's refuge in Amsterdam By H. Constance Hill Special to The Globe AMSTERDAM Anne Frank 'would have celebrated her 56th birthday in 1985. Instead, the world is observing the 40th anniversary of her death, in the German Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. Because of a diary that survived, Anne Frank has a face among the millions of Jews who died in similar appalling fashion. Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1929.

When the Hitler regime took over in 1933, her father, Otto, fled with the family to Amsterdam. Safety was short-lived. The occupation of the Netherlands by the Nazis in 1940 began a period of strict limitation of personal freedom for Jews, increasing public humiliation, and growing fear for their lives. Concern over deportation finally came too close, when Anne's older sister, Margot, was ordered to report for a work camp. The Frank family moved into hiding in the upper stories of the 200-year-old canal house at 263 Prinsen-gracht, the office for Otto Frank's business.

Because he knew he would be tit -j- lit r'trVr-r tr IT WON'T TAKE MUCH 1 i i jr i 1U 1 TO FALL INTO OUR WHY GAMBLE WITH T0" Ivaptlaol Sjff. COST 2 DayS1 Night I ABA World or Madison iSSU.UO 3 Days2 Nights 1 World or Madison Wed- 1 099 "ATLANTIC CITY Sat Sun Wed $10 Sat, Sun on OK 1 Day HARRAH Sat" Sun' Wed $15 Wed. fLav TRUMP St" Wed" I $5 Quarters $29.95 saiaL saturdays 3 Fridays 40a MadiSOn Holidays Excluded. ffiSd coup" 1 QJ Amsterdam's landmark Westerkerk, with its 47-bell carillon church tower, is just doors from the Anne Frank House, also on the Prisengracht canal. The days and nights of people who lived under Nazi rule in Germany and occupied countries are presented in a new perspective, with an emphasis on questions, no answers or accusations.

Exhibits will elicit visitors' reactions to those events as if they were confronted under similar circumstances. The large undertaking, presented in English as well as Dutch, is open daily at the Westerkerk until Sept. 15. A nearly duplicate exhibition has been brought to North America by the American Friends of Anne Frank and the Anne Frank Center (245 East 60th New York, NY 10022). It will be at the World Trade Center in New York for three weeks, beginning Aug.

28. Thereafter, it will travel throughout the United States and Canada for two years, with minimum stays of one month each in Boston, Cleveland, Miami, Seattle and Los Angeles; other cities and the exact schedule of dates are still to be determined. Near the waterlooplein flea market is the Jonas Daniel Meijer-plein, surrounded by a complex of four synagogues, with handsome detailing. Two are being restored, and the Jewish Historical Museum, which has been in the 1488 Nieuwmarkt Weigh House since 1932, will be relocated there in the spring of 1987. The collection gives an impression of Jewish religious and social life in the Netherlands since 1600.

The Quarter's monumental Portuguese Synagogue was the largest in the world when completed in 1675. The 17th-century interior is still completely intact, and can be visited from May through September, except on Saturdays and Jewish holidays. The synagogue is a suitable backdrop for the impressive statue, "The Dockworker," at once threatening and powerless. It commemorates the February strike in 1941, a massive protest by Amsterdam workers in support of their persecuted fellow-citizens after a raid in the Jewish Quarter. Every year, the anniversary of the February 25th strike is observed here.

"The Dockworker," like the contents of Anne Frank's "Diary," continues to remind us that the choices we make in life do make a difference. In early August 1944, a never-identified person probably an employee in the warehouse at 263 Prinsengracht received the usual reward of five guilders ($1.40) a person for betraying the eight who occupied the secret annex. The action was a conscious choice, with predictable consequences. Less than three weeks before that betrayal, Anne Frank had written in her diary: robbed of his property rights by the Germans, Frank had given the house to a Dutch employee named Koophuis. Subsequently, Koophuis agreed to take on the considerable risk of helping the Franks to simply disappear, and then keeping them supplied with food, friendship, and other necessities.

The Franks slipped into the secret annex to the house on July 9, 1942, less than a month after Anne had received a diary for her 13th birthday. Today, the house where Anne wrote of her 2-year existence in close quarters with her parents, sister and four strangers, where fear was a frequent companion, is one of Amsterdam's most visited sites. Had the windows of the secret annex attic not had to be painted so that the neighbors would not know they were there, the nearby Westerkerk toren, or West Church tower, would have been visible to the inhabitants. She was comforted by the bells The tower's 47-bell carillon was a comfort to Anne, and she wrote in her diary of "the chiming clock at the Westertoren which I always find so reassuring." More than 40 years after she wrote those words, I lay listening to the same Westertoren carillon strike the quarter hours at a nearby tourist canalside hotel, rereading Anne's "Diary of a Young Girl." The next day was Tuesday, and I sat on a bench outside the Anne Frank House for an hour at noon to hear the Westerkerk's weekly carillon concert. At 2 p.m., I climbed the tower and was rewarded with a wonderful view of Amsterdam.

Outside the Westerkerk, at the base of the tower, stands a small modern sculpture of Anne Frank. Frequently, flowers are placed at its feet. At present, however, it's the interior of the Westerkerk that draws the greatest attention, place of a major exhibition in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the death of the girl who has come to symbolize the victims of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution: "Anne Frank in the World: 1929-1945." With the aid of some 800 photographs, many from private archives never before seen in public, Frank family album pictures, pages of the original diary, a model of the hiding place behind the bookcase, and audio-visual displays, the exhibit will trace the events of Anne Frank's short life, as they paralleled the events in the world. As I sat in a room in the Anne Frank House, the one that had once been her father's business office, 1 listened to Wouter Van der 0 Tour Includes: Deluxe motorcoach transportation, mod at ion as specified above or iimilar, and Hartley ATLANTIC CITY JZT Toua 3 Days2 Nights; Jet trans, your choice of Logan or Bradley Field, trans, to and from AC hotel, deluxe rooms, $20 back in quarters, Hartley Escort, baggage handling taxes. Space limited-reserve $219 COLUMBUS WEEKEND 3 Days2 NightsOct.

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In the meantime, I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out." Anne Frank died at the age of 16 at the Bergen-Belsen camp, just two months before the liberation of the Netherlands. She never got the "cycling, Idancing, whistling, looking out into the world, feeling young, (knowing that I'm free" that she i longed for. 1 Nevertheless, despite an unmarked grave, her wish to "live on after my death" is realized on bookshelves around the world that hold her "Diary," and in hearts that carry her ideals. H. Constance Hill ts a freelance writer from Boston who has lived In the Netherlands.

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