Anne Frank's Tree Will Be Axed
March 12th 2007 06:55
The city government of Amsterdam gave permission for the owner of a chestnut tree to cut it down. It was the tree which Anne Frank took comfort in when she was in hiding.
via CNN
The large, 150-year-old tree has been attacked by a fungus and is in danger of falling down.
The tree is familiar to some 25 million readers of "The Diary of Anne Frank." It stands in the courtyard of the "secret annex," the canal-side warehouse where her family hid during the Nazi occupation.
The tree is familiar to some 25 million readers of "The Diary of Anne Frank." It stands in the courtyard of the "secret annex," the canal-side warehouse where her family hid during the Nazi occupation.
via CNN
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