Anne Frank displayed at prestigious wax museum

Figure of Holocaust diarist writing at her desk added to Madame Tussauds collection in Vienna

By JTA 3 September 2013, 9:07 pm

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Anne Frank, at age 12, at her school desk in Amsterdam, 1941

A life-size wax figure of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank has gone on display at Madame Tussauds in Vienna.

The display shows Anne writing in her diary at a desk in the attic of the house in Amsterdam where the teenager’s family hid from the Nazis. The diary was discovered after the Holocaust and published.

Anne Frank died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945; informers had given away the family’s hiding place.

The figure was created using historical documentation and pictures, according to reports.

“It is important for Madame Tussauds that we don’t just entertain but also play a role in educating people and help them learn from history,” a spokesman for the Austria museum said.