In her hiding place in Amsterdam, for more than two years, Anne Frank wrote about first love, fights with her parents, and birthday presents, all amid Nazi encirclement. Her diary might have told a story of survival. But in August 1944, Frank and her family were discovered and sent to Auschwitz; Anne and her sister, Margot, were then transferred to Bergen-Belsen, where they died in late February or March, 1945. Since then, millions have visited the cramped annex where the Frank family hid. Now, for the first time, that annex has been recreated in New York, within a 7,500-square-foot multi-media installation examining Anne’s life and death. A particularly poignant classroom photograph from her time at the Montessori school, in 1935, appears in the first room. A few rooms later, an animated version of the image erases the 10 classmates who were killed in the Holocaust—a chilling reminder of the horror unleashed just 80 years ago. —Elena Clavarino