Anne Frank's writings to go on permanent display

The writings of Jewish teenager Anne Frank, who hid in an Amsterdam attic with her family for two years before her capture by Nazis, will soon be on permanent display, according to the Dutch government.

"Her diaries and writings will return home" to the Anne Frank museum in Amsterdam that used to be the teenager's family home, Culture Minister Ronald Plasterk told journalists on the eve of the 80th anniversary of Anne's birth. Three diaries, a book of short stories and a "favourite quotes notebook", all authored by the girl, will be on display in a newly upgraded exhibition hall from November 1.

"Forty of the several hundred very brittle, loose sheets on which Anne rewrote her diary from May 1944 will be on permanent alternating display," said a statement. The documents have been donated to the museum by the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation under an agreement.

They had been left to the institute by the teenager's father, Otto Frank, who was the only one of his family to survive the concentration camps and died in 1980.

Most of the documents had been kept in a safe by the institute, and occasionally loaned to the museum for display.