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A diseased chestnut tree that comforted Anne Frank while she hid from the Nazis during World War II. (AP)
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Anne Frank's chestnut tree will not be felled this year despite disease
By Cnaan Liphshiz, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: chestnut tree, Holocaust 

The diseased chestnut tree outside Anne Frank's House in Amsterdam will not be felled this year, following a municipal decision last week.

The tree was declared a hazard last year, but experts from Utrecht told Haaretz on Wednesday that the verdict was premature.

The Amsterdam Central borough announced that while it acknowledged the owner's right to have the 150-year-old tree cut down within two years, it had also decided to grant an appeal for a reprieve until January.
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After the tree war earmarked for felling in March, the Trees Institute asked the for more time to come up with a rescue plan for the tree which comforted Anne Frank while she hid from the Nazis during World War II. In November, city experts said the tree could not be rescued from fungi that caused more than half its trunk to rot.

"The tree is very sick, and the fungi is indeed deadly and possibly incurable," Annemieke van Loon from the Bomen Stichting, a non-profit group for tree preservation, told Haaretz. "But if we prop its trunk to ensure it doesn't collapse, it can go on living for another 40 years."

According to Van Loon, the city did not treat the tree with proper respect. "They did some special efforts, but not enough." In a press release this week, the institute said: "The question should not be whether the tree is dangerous, but what can be done to allow it to stay."

After the institute files its "concrete plan" to save the tree, it plans to collect donations toward funding. "If it all fails," said van Loon, "at least we'll be able to replace the tree with grafts that ordinary Dutch people have taken from the tree."

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  1.   What a difference! 17:00  |  Jonathan S 04/10/07
  2.   Once it is felled, why not do something special with the wood? 17:39  |  Mea 04/10/07
  3.   A holy tree, perhaphs as holy as the wailing wall 19:47  |  Roxana from IRAN 04/10/07
  4.   They should cut the tree down and make crosses out of the wood 20:56  |  Jew for Jesus 04/10/07
  5.   Response to Roxana from Iran 22:39  |  Mark B. 04/10/07
  6.   Gee, Jonathan S., I am amazed 22:44  |  Mark B. 04/10/07
  7.   Shocking # 3 22:56  |  David 04/10/07
  8.   A tree & Propaganda 00:15  |  Shahin 05/10/07
  9.   Roxana you miss the point 00:46  |  Chris Linthwaite 05/10/07
  10.   Anne`s tree 01:09  |  Nechama 05/10/07
  11.   Roxana from IRAN 01:13  |  Nechama 05/10/07
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