In 2023, Annemiek Swinkels and her partner Willem Claassen spent a night in the Annex, the hideout in Amsterdam where Anne Frank, her family and three others lived during World War II before they were found and send them away.
He was “strange knowledge”, witnessing the couple to the Dutch daily NRC, don’t find yourself like this “lying on the ground to measure each plinth with a tape measure”. Then, armed “with precise measurements and over 8,000 pictures of the locations, they got to work. “
Famous construction site. Far from Amsterdam, in an industrial area in the south of the Netherlands, Swinkels and Claassen are currently completing a faithful replica of the Annex, “one of the most famous historical places in the world”. This commission is from the Anne Frank Foundation for the Center for Jewish History in New York, which is holding a major exhibition in January about the story of the young Jewish girl who kept a diary, published posthumously at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, documenting Nazi occupation and persecution.
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“The aim of this exhibition is, explain NRC, to allow Americans who cannot go to Europe to have access to important representation. “ of this historical period.
Both designers emphasize that they pay great attention to the detail of their reconstruction. The furniture and period items were found to be very similar to the original and, if they used cross-shaped screws, they were systematically hidden, as they did not exist at the time, explaining – NRC.
Within a week, the refill will be shipped by container. Willem, with the help of a team, then goes and collects everything while Annemie takes care of arranging the items and “aging” the decoration by using grease and moisture stains.
2024-10-22 14:11:00
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