QUICK TAKES - June 12, 2009

The Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam says it will permanently exhibit Frank’s diaries and other writings as part of activities commemorating the 80th anniversary of her birth on June 12, 1929.

Until now, her writings have been kept by the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation; facsimiles have been used in displays at the museum, which encompasses the apartment where she wrote while hiding from the Nazis. Dutch Education Minister Ronald Plasterk said Thursday while overseeing the transfer that it was important for history that the diaries be displayed where they were written.