Anne Frank’s Tree

The chestnut tree that brought comfort to Anne Frank while her family hid fron the Nazis is sick. Of it, she said:

Nearly every morning I go to the attic to blow the stuffy air out of my lungs," she wrote on Feb. 23, 1944. "From my favorite spot on the floor I look up at the blue sky and the bare chestnut tree, on whose branches little raindrops shine, appearing like silver, and at the seagulls and other birds as they glide on the wind. ...

"As long as this exists, I thought, and I may live to see it, this sunshine, the cloudless skies, while this lasts I cannot be unhappy."

They 've gone the extra mile to try to save the 150 yr old tree and have taken a graft so a sapling can replace it. Fears are it may fall on the Anne Frank Museum if not cut down.

Anne Frank died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration canp in 1945.