In her class were also students who, like Anne Frank, had fled Nazi Germany with their families because they were Jewish, among them Hanneli Goslar.

During the years of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, anti-Jewish measures were enacted.

Among others, Anne Frank left the primary school in 1941 and continued her education at the Jewish Lyceum.

[2][3] In 1956, the Anne Frank Committee requested that the Amsterdam municipality rename the school in Anne Frank's memory.

[4][5] Artist Harry Visser painted a mural with excerpts from Anne Frank's diary on the school's façade in 1983.