More than 10,000 people visited the exhibition recording the short but eventful life of Holocaust victim Anne Frank held at the underground vaults of the Auberge de Castille in Merchants Street, Valletta.

The exhibition, which opened on January 27 to mark World Memorial Day dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust, was viewed by an average of 550 people daily.

In the first half of July 1942, when the Germans invaded Amsterdam, Anne and her family moved into a secret annexe built behind their apartment. But two years later, they were discovered by the Gestapo – the German secret state police – who were tipped off by an anonymous Dutch caller. The family was arrested and separated with Anne and her sister Margot being sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Both girls died a year later from typhus fever. Anne was 16.

The exhibition has been extended by a week and will remain open until February 25 between 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. on weekdays and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on weekends and public holidays. The last entry is an hour before closing.