Voters from Amsterdam can cast their votes at an unusual location during the November 22 Dutch elections: the Anne Frank House, according to the city’s mayor.
Femke Halsema said in a letter to the city council on Thursday that “extra attention will be paid to the security of this polling station, given the situation in Israel and the Palestinian Territories.”
The house will be closed to visitors, but will allow tourists in “if in practice few people come to vote.”
The Netherlands goes to the polls later this month for what promises to be a seismic political event, with new parties and current Prime Minister Mark Rutte stepping down after thirteen years.
Polls show that an emerging party, founded by the popular Pieter Omtzigt, is in the lead, followed by the main centre-right and centre-left parties.
The museum preserves the house where the Jewish Frank family hid and Anne wrote her famous diary, one of the most terrifying stories of the Holocaust.
After two years in hiding, Anne Frank and her family were captured during an operation in 1944. The teenager and her sister died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.
Source: DN
