The secret annex – one of the most famous dwellings in history, thanks to Frank’s best-selling published diary – can now be explored remotely, in New York.

A full-scale replica of the secret annex where Anne Frank penned her famous diary opened in New York City on Monday as the world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The exhibit at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan represents the first time the annex has been completely recreated outside of Amsterdam,

Dutch set designers Annemiek Swinkels and Willem Claassen spent months poring over Frank’s diaries and sourcing vintage furniture from the Netherlands for new NYC exhibit. Anne Frank’s checkered diary is sitting on a desk.

“Anne Frank: The Exhibition” features a replica of the hidden annex where eight Jewish people, including Anne and her family, lived for two years between July 1942 and August 1944 before they were discovered and sent to death camps.

The Anne Frank House, in partnership with the Center for Jewish History, unveiled the world premiere of Anne Frank The Exhibition in New York City on Monday, coinciding with International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

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

New York City's Center for Jewish History is hosting an Anne Frank exhibit that recreates the rooms she and her family hid in during World War II and the Holocaust.

For the first time ever, visitors can explore a full-scale replica of the hiding place where Anne Frank penned her famous diary.

A recreation of the hiding place Anne Frank and her family stayed in Amsterdam Vale Julie Copeland, a pioneering ABC Radio National broadcaster and mentor It ditched its crowd-pulling roti with Vegemite curry and has a new head chef.