The Amsterdam apartment where Anne Frank began writing her famous diary will become a writers’ residence. Sixty years after the teenaged girl died in a concentration camp, local housing associations, the Anne Frank Museum and a cultural body are joining forces to make the apartment, located in an Amsterdam suburb, available as a guest residence to foreign writers and journalists who face censorship or persecution, Reuters reported.
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