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Peter gets a stock exchange board game for his birthday

Peter celebrated his sixteenth birthday. He received a stock exchange board game as a gift from the office staff.

Event

Nov. 8, 1942

52.37521 N 4.884335 E

Prinsengracht 263

Amsterdam

Nederland

Fotograaf onbekend. Fotocollectie Anne Frank Stichting

Het Beursspel

Fotograaf onbekend. Fotocollectie Anne Frank Stichting Copyright: AFS rechthebbende.

The Beursspel (Stock Exchange Game) was a board game where players could speculate on price fluctuations, trade in shares and invest in (overseas) trade and industry.[1] Anne's diary later states that they played it occasionally.[2]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Anne Frank Stichting - Collection online: Het Beursspel, 1941.
  2. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 11 April 1944, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.