Anne Frank's marbles found in an Amsterdam cupboard during house move
Museum spokeswoman Annemarie Bekkers said that Frank was one of many Jewish children who gave away toys before being deported and dying in the Holocaust
A tin of marbles belonging to Anne Frank have been found in a house move.
The Holocaust victim gave them to friend Toosje Kuypers for safekeeping in 1942 before hiding with her family in an attic.
Now 83, Toosje found the Jewish teenage diarist’s toys in her Amsterdam cupboard.
She told a Dutch broadcaster that after World War II ended she had offered the items to Otto Frank, Anne’s father and the only member of the family to survive the Holocaust
She said he told her she could keep the marbles.
The Anne Frank Museum in the Dutch city said the marbles are now on show at a Rotterdam art gallery.
Museum spokeswoman Annemarie Bekkers said that Frank was one of many Jewish children who gave away toys before being deported and dying in the Holocaust.
Anne died, aged 15, in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.