TOMsterdam, 10 Jul. (askanews) – Reconstructing the roads of Amsterdam of 1941 on the screen of a smartphone, when Anna Frank suffered the anti -Semitic laws: this is the challenge of an immersive tour that combines technology and artificial intelligence to guide tourists in an interactive reconstruction that returns the experience of the Dutch Jews during the Nazi occupation.
“When we start the tour, we start from here, in front of Anna’s house, the home of the Frank family – explains Moti Erdeapel, director of Cityfans, the tourist technology company that conceived the project – We come into contact with history through animation, artificial intelligence, narration and we go from one place to another, moving through the city and listening to different events and characters who have lived and have been crucial for history for history and of Anna “.
Every day, little Anna Frank and her sister Margot had to travel 2 and a half kilometers to go to school on foot, since the anti -Jewish laws forbade them to use public transport or bicycles.
“What we have noticed is that many people, when they come to Amsterdam, really want to know more about Anna Frank and discover its story. The home of Anna Frank, the museum, is a very small place and has a limited capacity, so many people remain outside,” explains the director of Cityfans who in turn comes from a family of surviving to the Holocaust.
Every year, more than a million tourists visit the narrow house and the Dependance where the young German woman and her family hid from the Nazis for two years, from July 1942 to their arrest at the beginning of August 1944. The family had moved to the Netherlands in 1933 to escape persecutions in Germany.
With the virtual tour, a cell phone and headphones are enough. A unique code gives access to a 7 kilometer route and twelve stages through Amsterdam.
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