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Last update - 00:00 19/11/2007
Chestnut from Anne Frank tree goes on sale on eBay
By Reuters
Tags: Nazis, Anne Frank, Holland 

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.

"I had this idea for a few years, then I saw that the tree was in the news and I decided to put the chestnut up for auction," said 34-year-old Charles Kuijpers, who lives next door to the garden where the tree stands.
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City officials recently decided that the 27-ton tree was so diseased
that the risk that the trunk could break was too great, and said that it would be removed on Wednesday.

Bids for the chestnut have reached $700 in the auction, which is titled
"Grow your own Anne Frank tree with a chestnut".

The Jewish teenager described gazing longingly at the tree in the diary
she kept during her two years in hiding. Anne and her family hid until they were betrayed and arrested in August 1944. The towering horse chestnut was one of the few examples of nature and normal life she could see.

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  2.   #1 17:04  |  ben Ish 19/11/07
  3.   anne frank tree 17:26  |  rolfkitty 19/11/07
  4.   rolfkitty 17:38  |  leon 19/11/07
  5.   This chestnut is cheap and tasteless 17:44  |  Boycott 19/11/07
  6.   The Ann Frank Tree & the smart neighbor. 17:51  |  Nora 19/11/07
  7.   $2,750 for a nut 18:21  |  Chris Linthwaite 19/11/07
  8.   # 7 19:25  |  Larry 19/11/07
  9.   #8 Larry 20:48  |  Chris Linthwaite 19/11/07
  10.   A quick buck ! Let`s hope he spends it well... 21:31  |  Benjamina 19/11/07
  11.   anne frank 23:44  |  pesach 19/11/07
  12.   Pesach 01:31  |  Whatever 20/11/07
  13.   #linthwaite 02:03  |  sababa 20/11/07
  14.   I need 16:46  |  wh 21/11/07
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  16.   does not make sence 17:17  |  Sheena 30/03/09
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