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Amsterdam
RIIKKA SALMU AND JENNA SIPILÄ
Amterdam is the capital of Holland. The building of the city was
started in 11th century. Since
13th century the city has been
growing quickly and nowadays it’s
the biggest city of Holland with its
750,000 inhabitants.
Amsterdam is known by its canals
and old, beautiful houses, which are
being protected. It is also known by
its tolerance. Actually, it has become
a symbol of European liberalism.
There are many famous sights in
Amsterdam. Art museums, Anne
Frank House and many more places are worth seeing. If you go to
Holland, you should go and see at
least Van Gogh museum, Anne Frank
House and Rijksmuseum (which is
Vincent van Gogh
the national museum of Holland).
On our trip we visited Anne Frank
House, Van Gogh museum and Rijksmuseum. Unfortunately, cameras
were not allowed to take in, so we
couldn’t take any pictures. After
visiting Van Gogh and Rijksmuseum we went shopping in one of the
streets full of little stores, shops
and restaurants. Then we met in
the Dam square, which is the centre square of Amsterdam. There we
saw the Koninklijk Paleis, the Royal
Palace, but only from the outside.
On the other side of the square is
a big white stone pillar, which is a
national monument.
Amsterdam is a good place to visit: it’s near everything, so you can
go where you want. Distances are
short, wherever you go.
The monument in the
Dam square
The Life of Anne Frank
TIIA ILOLA, HENRIIKKA PAHKALA AND
TUULA SIHVONEN
HANNA HYÖDYNMAA AND RIITTA
LUOTO
On our class trip to the Netherlands last April, we visited the Vincent van Gogh –museum in Amsterdam. In the museum there are many
paintings of Vincent van Gogh.
There are also paintings made by
other artists. Some of van Gogh’s
paintings were destroyed in the Second World War. We visited in the
museum only for an half hour so we
didn’t get to look at the paintings
in such a careful way, but we did see
the most famous painting like “Vase
with twelve sunflowers” and “The
Potato Eaters” which was one of his
first big works. At the beginning of
the museum tour were his first paintings and at the end were his last
Anne Frank was born in 1929 in
Germany. Anne’s family decided to
move to Amsterdam in the Netherlands, because Adolf Hitler came
to power in Germany and started
his Nazi regime. Her parents were
Otto Frank and Edith Frank. She had
also a big sister, Margot. They were
Jews so that’s why Nazis persecuted
them during the Second World War.
Margot got an order to report to
hard labour in a work camp. That’s
why they decided to hide in the
Annexe next to Anne’s father office. There were also four other
people with them. Four office personnel helped them bringing food
and everything what they needed.
On Anne’s 13th birthday she got a
diary from her father. Anne started
writing in her diary, which she told
everything what happened in the
Secret Annexe.
paintings. You could see how the
colours changed as his mind turned
darker. We found the museum very
interesting. It is important to know
something about the world-famous
artist. There is always a long queue
into the museum because many
people want to see van Gogh’s
paintings. In the museum there is a
souvenier shop. There you can buy
for example posters of van Gogh’s
paintings, cards, pens, cups and
much more of van Gogh.
Vincent van Gogh was born in the
Netherlands in 30th of March in
1853. He lived in many countries
and had many jobs. He killed himself after a long struggle of mental
illness.
Teachers and Anne Frank
Projekti Safe on saanut Euroopan komission Sokrates ohjelman Comenius-luvun mukaista taloudellista tukea.
Komissio ei vastaa tämän julkaisun sisällöstä.
Comenius-liitteen vastaava päätoimittaja on Arvo Helanti.
Frank’s family had to hide there
over 25 month before Nazis found
them and they had to go to concentration camps, like Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz. The family was
separated from each other and they
had to be there over nine month.
That was hard for them, because
they hadn’t food enough and there
were many illnesses spreading in the
horrible conditions of the camps.
In early 1945 Anne Frank died of
typhus in Bergen-Belsen one month
before the concentration camp
were set free. She was only fifteen
years old.
Otto Frank was the only person
of the family who survived and he
returned to Amsterdam. One of the
family’s helpers Miep Gies saved
Anne’s diary and after the war Otto
and Miep decided to published it.
Now the diary is one of the most
widely read books in the world.
Anne Frank House
Anne Frank house is situated Prinsengracht canalside house in 263 in
Amsterdam in the Netherlands. This
is the house where Anne and her
family were in hiding lived and the
place where Anne wrote her diary.
There are quotations from Anne’s
diary, historical documents, objects,
photographs, and video tapes serve
in telling the story. Visitors are allowed to walk around the Annexe following a marked route and they are
asked to be quiet and respectful.
We found the house interesting,
thought-provoking and scary because of the historical truth.