H5 the Anne Frank foundation and the museum

Since 1960 is the Anne Frank house open for people. Every year a lot of school groups are going to do a program at the Anne Frank house. The Anne Frank House is started on 3 May 1957. Three years later, the Anne Frank House opened as a museum. Each year, 908000 visitors from around the world visit the Anne Frank House, the former hiding place, one of the most visited museums of Amsterdam. After the second German war Otto Frank was the only one of the family that came back. Otto Frank came back in June 1945 in Amsterdam. He decided after a while to exhibit the diary of Anne Frank. Otto Frank remarried in 1953 and went with his second wife, Elfriede Markovits, in Basel (Switzerland). The management of rights of  Anne Frank's diary he carried over to the Anne Frank Foundation, which is also located in Bavel. Otto Frank died in 1980 at an age of 91 years.  He has made the care that anyone could read the diary and see it. Otto Frank was actively involved to opening of the outhouse as a museum. The Anne Frank House has not only focus on the past. Prejudice, discrimination and violating human rights are today throughout the world. These current issues are central to the temporary exhibition. On 3 May 1957 the Anne Frank Foundation was created in order to restore the building. The most of the visitors come from other countries. The diary of Anne Frank has Otto Frank published. On 3 May 1960 was the museum officially opened. The fiftieth anniversary was on 3 May 2011. Queen Beatrix was here also. The first year 9000 people came to the museum every year and now, 50 years later million people came to the hiding  place of Anne Frank and her family. The bank giro lottery supports the Anne Frank foundation since 2007. For a period of 5 years the foundation give amount of 200.000 Euro every 5 years. The Anne Frank foundation gets in 2008 also a cheque of 750 .000 Euro. For the financing of big projects is the Anne Frank foundation dependent on contributions from different funds, friends and supporters of the European Union and the Dutch government.