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The chestnut tree that gave Anne Frank a link to the outside world while she hid from the Nazis won a reprieve Tuesday when a judge ordered the city to reconsider whether the diseased tree can be saved.
Hiding from the Nazis in a cramped Amsterdam apartment, Anne Frank often gazed at a majestic chestnut tree visible through an attic skylight — her only window to the outside world — and dreamed of freedom.
The chestnut tree that comforted Anne Frank while she hid from the Nazis during World War II will be cut down Nov. 21 because it is too diseased to be saved, the city said Tuesday.
The diseased chestnut tree that comforted Anne Frank while she hid from the Nazis during World War II has been granted a reprieve.
The Anne Frank museum still wants a diseased chestnut tree cut down for safety reasons, despite a court reprieve over its felling.
The chestnut tree that comforted Anne Frank as she hid from the Nazis in Amsterdam during World War II has won another reprieve. Amsterdam city council ruled in March that the rotting 150-year-old tree must be felled as a danger to the public.
An Amsterdam resident has put for sale on eBay a chestnut that he says came from the tree that Anne Frank gazed upon while hiding from the Nazis, as activists fight to save the diseased tree from being felled.
The diseased chestnut tree that comforted Anne Frank while she hid from the Nazis during World War II has been granted a reprieve.
Some people might be offended or upset by these images but this isn't my intentions I just want it to be thought provoking and enlightening, and for people to talk about the past and to never forget, because we need to learn from past events other wise we will keep repeating hist …
The large, 150-year-old tree has been attacked by a fungus and is in danger of falling down. The tree is familiar to readers of "The Diary of Anne Frank."
Anyone who has ever had the good luck to work in old archives knows how surprising they can be. A thick and unappetizing file might, with patience, yield up a wealth of interesting detail; a pile of yellowed papers can contain the solution to an old riddle.
For the first time, secrets of the Nazi Holocaust that have been hidden away for more than 60 years are finally being made available to the public. We're not talking about a missing filing cabinet - we're talking about thousands of filing cabinets, holding 50 million pages.
[Authors note: This was written as a speech...it reads slightly better if you're extremely animated, standing in front of a crowd, and very wired on caffeine, as I usually am. The main points still hold true, however.]
From the page: -- The ceremonial burning of the diary of Holocaust victim Anne Frank by far-right extremists in eastern Germany was condemned by the German government on Friday amid calls to intensify efforts to stamp out neo-Nazi activity. --
From the page: -- A 13-year-old schoolgirl who kept a poignant and ultimately tragic diary that recounts what it was like to grow up in Stalin's Soviet Union has been hailed as Russia's answer to Anne Frank. --
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