Sapling from Anne Frank tree planted in Amsterdam park
Other saplings will be planted around the world, including countries such as the U.S.
By Associated Press Tags: Israel news Anne FrankA park in Amsterdam has begun planting 150 saplings from an ancient chestnut tree that once cheered Anne Frank as her family hid from the Nazis.
The Jewish teenager wrote about the tree in her diary as a rare connection to nature during the 2 years her family hid in cramped conditions in Amsterdam before their betrayal.
Frank died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945, at age 15.
The 150-year-old tree is now dying but will eventually be replaced with one of several clones that have been taken from it.
City councilwoman Marijke Vos planted the first sapling in the Amsterdamse Bos Park Friday.
Others will be planted around the world, including countries such as the U.S.
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A very sad, profound, and true statement you've made. Were a tree to be planted for each heartache, the Earth would be covered by one great forest ... MV
There is this place that everyone should know, that bends towards your own memory as a flexing bow. Yes you should take all the smiles that life can give, as a morning ray of light or days eve. And we will wait on this edge of an hour dark, when your soul will soar into life as the younger lark. And then we will all remember what other seek to deny, this solid memory of darker times gone by.
anne frank is a heartache... because we KNOW hers.
Anne Frank tree, And like this tree her memory & story will grow & spread from one country to another ! In Occupied Europe,under the regime of terror there were minute sparks of humanity. But even worse,there were wicked,& bad people. Anne Frank's Family was betrayed. Young Anne,a 15 year-old girl,once full of life & joy,was cast into a German Concentration Camp where she died. What a pity !