A year after the opening of the Secret Annex, the International Youth Centre was opened. It was located in the adjacent building, at Prinsengracht 265.
Opening International Youth Centre of the Anne Frank Stichting
May 3, 1961 Amsterdam
The year before, Otto Frank had explained his intentions for the International Youth Centre in a radio interview:
“The Anne Frank House is a base, but the International Youth Centre will do everything to further the Anne Frank ideals: to help, to work for peace, for tolerance, for understanding. And that is the main thing, which we still have to do.”