At the height of World War II, Anne Frank spent more than two years cooped up with her family in a secret annex in Amsterdam. While hiding from the Nazis, the young girl filled the pages of her now-iconic diary.

Anne Frank is known around the world for her deeply personal account of how her family hid in a secret annex in the Netherlands to evade Nazi persecution of Jews during World War II. Now, a full-scale replica of the room that hid the teenage Jewish diarist for about two years before she and her family were discovered in 1944 and sent to a concentration camp will be shipped to New York — to help a new audience across the Atlantic learn more about Frank and life under Nazi occupation.

The hidden annex where the young Jewish diarist Anne Frank hid from Nazi occupiers during World War II is heading to New York.

New York — A full-scale replica of Anne Frank’s Secret Annex is opening in New York City early next year to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the Anne Frank House museum announced last week.

A full-scale replica of the secret annex where Anne Frank and her family hid during World War II is set to make its debut in the U.S. for the first time