Churcher's College and The Secret Annexe of Amsterdam

On Saturday 1st February 2020, the cast of Churcher's College Senior Play "The Diary of Anne Frank" travelled to Amsterdam to visit the house in which the Frank family hid during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, having moved there from Germany in 1933.

The trip, just for the day, consisted of a boat tour along the famous canals, a lunch-stop at the Pancake Bakery and a few hours spent walking through the city, soaking up the atmosphere, before going in to "Anne Frank Huis".

The house is now preserved as a museum and gives visitors a fascinating and sobering insight into the life of Jewish people in hiding.

The students agreed that walking through the house was incredibly thought-provoking, bringing home exactly what life in hiding would have been like and would make performing the play incredibly real to them.

The near sold-out Senior Play, "The Diary of Anne Frank", took place on 11th, 12th and 13th February 2020 at the Senior School.