A record number of visitors toured the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam last year. More than 822,000 people visited the house where the teen-age diarist and her family hid from the Nazis, a 16 percent increase over 1997, according to officials at the Anne Frank Foundation. The officials attributed the increase to publicity surrounding the recent publication of newly discovered pages from her diary.
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