Anne Frank lived in hiding in Amsterdam for more than two years, and last April, the Secret Annex Online, a site devoted to the exploration of Prinsengracht 263, launched to show what the house looked like during the time that the Frank family lived there. “I wander from room to room, climb up and down stairs, and feel like a songbird whose wings have been ripped off and who keeps hurling itself against the bars of its dark cage,” Anne wrote of her surroundings. “Let me out, where there’s fresh air and laughter.” Visitors can click their way through the 3-D house using functionality similar to that of Google Street View; icons denote locations with associated stories and narration. Read more at newyorker.com…
Secret Life
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I’m the deputy managing editor at strategy + business, a freelance editor at Belt, and the former web manager at The New Yorker. My writing and editing also has appeared in The New York Times, The Independent, the Observer, the Rumpus, the Cleveland Clinic Press, and Northern Ohio Live. Additionally, I was a founding team member of Maven, a healthcare app for women. I live in Brooklyn with my husband, the musician and writer Mike Errico, and our daughter. Follow me @sally_errico. View more posts