Anne Frank's writing on display

The Anne Frank House museum is to mount a permanent exhibit of her diaries and other writings as part of activities commemorating the 80th anniversary of her birth tomorrow.

Anne died aged 15 in a concentration camp, but her posthumously published diary made her a symbol of all Jews killed in the Second World War.

She wrote while hiding from the Nazis in a secret apartment above a warehouse in Amsterdam.

Until now her writings have been kept by the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation and facsimiles have been used in displays at the museum, which encompasses the apartment.

Dutch education minister Ronald Plasterk said today while overseeing the transfer that it was important for history that the diaries be displayed where they were written.