| 6th Montessori School Anne Frank | |
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6e Montessorischool Anne Frank | |
 Entrance of the school in 2010 | |
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Niersstraat 41 1078 VJAmsterdam Netherlands | |
| Coordinates | 52°20′34″N4°53′38″E / 52.3428°N 4.8939°E /52.3428; 4.8939 |
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| Former name | 6th Montessori School |
| Type | publicprimary school |
| Established | 1933 (1933) |
| Director | Katja Rakic |
| Number of pupils | 350 |
| Affiliation | Montessori schools |
| Website | annefrank-montessori |
The6th Montessori School Anne Frank[1] (Dutch:6e Montessorischool Anne Frank) (orAnne Frank School (Dutch:Anne Frankschool) for short) is apublicMontessoriprimary school in theRivierenbuurt,Amsterdam.
The school was founded in 1933 as the sixth school in theNetherlands according toMaria Montessori's educational methodology. Originally, it was named the6th Montessori School.
Anne Frank attended the affiliated kindergarten fromApril 1934, and later attended the school. In her class were also students who, like Anne Frank, had fledNazi Germany with their families because they wereJewish, among themHanneli Goslar. During the years of theNazi occupation of the Netherlands, anti-Jewish measures were enacted and enforced. After the summer vacations of 1941, the occupying forces decreed that the 151 Jewish students had to leave the school and instead go to a Jewish school. Among others, Anne Frank left the primary school in 1941 and continued her education at the JewishLyceum.[2][3]
In 1956, the Anne Frank Committee requested that the Amsterdam municipality rename the school in Anne Frank's memory. In 1957, ten years afterAnne Frank's diary had been published, the school was named after Anne Frank.[4][5]
Artist Harry Visser painted a mural with excerpts from Anne Frank's diary on the school's façade in 1983.[2]
In 1995, the school was remodeled. The classrooms on the first floor were kept in their original state as much as possible. The last classroom also still has an original stove. This was one of the classrooms where Anne Frank had her lessons. In the school there is a memorial plaque in memory of the 130 deported and murdered Jewish children from the school.[2]
Het Anne Frank-comité dat zich in november 1956 met een oproep tot het Nederlandse volk en tot de gemeentelijke autoriteiten van Amsterdam had gericht met het verzoek het te steunen in zijn streven om tot een blijvende herinnering aan Anne Frank te komen, heeft van Amsterdams wethouder van Onderwijs, mr. A. de Roos, de mededeling ontvangen dat B. en W. besloten hebben de naam van de Montesorrischool in de Niersstraat, waar van Anne Frank zes jaren leerlinge was, te wijzigen in „Anne Frankschool".
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