It is the first time that the Anne Frank House presents an experience outside of Amsterdam to immerse visitors in a full-scale recreation of the annex rooms, fully furnished, where Anne Frank, her parents and sister, and four other Jews spent two years hiding to evade Nazi capture.

Moving through the exhibition, visitors can immerse themselves in the context that shaped Anne’s life—from her early years in Frankfurt through the rise of the Nazi regime and the family’s phased move to Amsterdam across 1933 and 1934, where Anne lived for 10 years until her 1944 arrest and deportation to Westerbork, a large transit camp in the Netherlands, then to Auschwitz-Birkenau, a concentration camp and killing center in Nazi-occupied Poland, and eventually to her death at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany when she was 15 years old.

The New York City exhibition occupies over 7,500 square feet of gallery space in the heart of Union Square. This marks the first time dozens of artifacts can be seen in the United States—many have never been seen in public.

Artifacts in the exhibition include: Anne Frank’s first photo album (1929-1942); Anne Frank’s typed and handwritten invitation to her friend for a film screening in her home (by 1942, anti-Jewish measures prohibited Jews from attending the cinema); and handwritten verses by Anne Frank in her friends' poetry albums.

General admission tickets are available every day the exhibition is open, and complimentary admission will be offered to select visitors on a variety of dates. Information may be obtained from the Center for Jewish History, 5 W 16th St, New York City, 212- 294-8301, https://www.cjh.org/visit/plan-your-visit.