And yet, for all that, Anne Frank remains something of an abstraction, especially for the many who have never trekked to Amsterdam and the Anne Frank House museum, which houses hundreds of artifacts and personal items of the Frank family. It also contains the infamous secret annex hidden behind a bookcase, which has been carefully preserved.

For the first time outside of Amsterdam, an exhibition reconstructs Anne’s hiding place during the devastation of the Holocaust.

The annex where the young Jewish diarist Anne Frank hid from Nazi occupiers during World War II is now open in NYC. FOX 5 NY's Hayley Fixler gives an inside look at the full-scale replica of Anne Frank's annex.

But the ones on display at the Center for Jewish History near Union Square are special — because they come from the cramped attic apartment in Amsterdam where Anne Frank, her family, and another four Jews famously hid from the Nazis for two years before being discovered and deported to concentration camps,