11 U.S. sites selected for Anne Frank saplings
150-year-old tree is battling lethal fungus; White House, World Trade Center amongst chosen sites.
By The Associated Press Tags: Holocaust Anne Frank Israel newsEleven U.S. sites have been selected to receive saplings derived from the chestnut tree that consoled Anne Frank as she hid during Nazi occupation in Amsterdam.
The New York Times reports that the Anne Frank Center USA announced sites dedicated to fighting intolerance.
They include Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas, site of forced desegregation in 1957; and holocaust centers in Seattle; Farmington Hills, Michigan; Boise, Idaho; and California's Sonoma State University.
Also chosen: former President Bill Clinton's foundation in Little Rock; Boston Common; and New York's Southern Cayuga Central School District.
The White House, the World Trade Center site and the Children's Museum of Indianapolis were selected previously.
The 150-year-old tree is battling lethal fungus.
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Most of them i guess. But with reservations. Anne Frank knew too well, and wrote, that the worst of men existed in all governments. And thus no government should be given unquestioned faith.