The Anne Frank House will be a polling place in the elections in the Netherlands

Voters in Amsterdam will be able to vote in the parliamentary elections on November 22 in an unusual place - in the famous Anne Frank House, the museum announced today.

The Amsterdam City Hall announced that it was an initiative of the Museum, which is managed by the Anne Frank Foundation.

The management of that museum stated that "The Anne Frank House is one of the places that reminds us of what can happen when democracy and the rule of law disappear" and that it hopes young people will register to vote right there.

Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema wrote in a letter to the City Council that "given the situation in Israel and the Palestinian territories, special attention will be paid to the security of this polling station".

Voters will be able to visit the Anne Frank House on the canal for free, one of the city's main tourist attractions. The museum will be closed to other visitors on election day, unless a small number of people come to vote.

The Van Gogh Museum and the mosque in the western part of Amsterdam - Westermoski will also be polling places this time, the City Assembly announced.

The museum, which hosts about a million visitors a year, is in the house where the Jewish Frank family hid from the Nazis and where Anna (1929-1945) wrote the famous diary, one of the most impressive accounts of the Holocaust, which sold about 30 million copies.

After two years in hiding, Anne Frank and her family were captured in 1944. Anne and her sister died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.

The Netherlands will hold parliamentary elections on November 22, and Prime Minister Mark Rute has announced his retirement from politics after a record 13 years at the head of the government. According to the polls, the race will be tight. The new party formed by the popular MP Pieter Omtzigt is currently in charge, and right behind it are the traditional parties of the center-right and center-left.