New York — A full-scale replica of Anne Frank’s Secret Annex is opening in New York City early next year to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the Anne Frank House museum announced last week.

The hidden annex where the young Jewish diarist Anne Frank hid from Nazi occupiers during World War II is heading to New York.

Anne Frank is known around the world for her deeply personal account of how her family hid in a secret annex in the Netherlands to evade Nazi persecution of Jews during World War II. Now, a full-scale replica of the room that hid the teenage Jewish diarist for about two years before she and her family were discovered in 1944 and sent to a concentration camp will be shipped to New York — to help a new audience across the Atlantic learn more about Frank and life under Nazi occupation.

A replica of the Anne Frank "secret annex" during World War II will be heading to New York City for an exhibit titled "Anne Frank The Exhibition" at the Center for Jewish History.

The secret Amsterdam home where Anne Frank and her family hid from the Nazis is being reconstructed for a full-scale display in New York marking 80 years since the liberation of the German concentration camp Auschwitz on January 27.