The history of Amsterdam’s canal ring has some sad chapters too and one of them is the famous story of Anne Frank. During the Second World War, she went into hiding in the house on your left. At first sight, it looks like a normal ‘grachtenpand’ or canal house. But did you know that an entire second house was built behind this one? That is why it was such a good hiding place for the Frank family.

However, this annexed house also had offices on the ground floor, which meant that the people hiding there could not use one side of the house during office hours. The people who worked in the offices thought that the house only contained storage space in the rooms above, so no footsteps must be heard, whatever the cost. In fact, the people in the offices had no idea that there was an entire house next door to them because they never went into the garden and could not see the other side of the building. Nonetheless, the people hiding in the house were discovered on 4 August 1944 and arrested. To this day, nobody knows who betrayed them.