Shortly before she and her family went into hiding, Anne Frank gave some of her toys to a friend for safekeeping -- a tin of marbles, a tea set and a book. Anne had regularly played with Toosje Kupers on the streets of their Amsterdam neighborhood and tasked her friend with looking after her treasured possessions. The next part of the story is well known -- the Frank family's suffocating experience of spending 25 months in cramped quarters, hiding from Jewish persecution by the Nazis. The world learned the harrowing tale in Anne's own words, written in her now widely read diary.
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Anne Frank gave her toys to a friend for safekeeping before going into hiding
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Her friend kept the possessions for some 70 years
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The box of marbles will go on display at a World War II exhibition
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This is the first time the colorful marbles will be shown to the public
@placeholder had kept the belongings, only finding them decades later when moving just over a year ago.