Anne Frank tree

Anne Frank described the tree from The Annex, the building where she and her family were hiding from the Nazis during World War II.

The Borough Amsterdam Centrum declared that the tree had to be cut down on 20 November 2007 due to the risk that it could otherwise fall down.

On 23 August 2010, the tree was blown down by high winds during a storm, breaking off approximately 1 metre (3 feet) above ground.

On 23 February 1944, she writes about the tree: Ik ga haast elke ochtend naar de zolder waar Peter werkt om de bedompte kamerlucht uit mijn longen te laten waaien.

[...] 'Zolang dit nog bestaat', dacht ik 'en ik het mag beleven, deze zonneschijn, die hemel waaraan geen wolk is, zolang kan ik niet treurig zijn'.Nearly every morning I go to the attic where Peter works to blow the stuffy air out of my lungs, from my favorite spot on the floor I look up at the blue sky and the bare chestnut tree, on whose branches droplets shine, and at the seagulls and other birds as they glide like silver.

[10] Visitors to the museum are able to leave their name and location on a "leaf" of the tree, showing their affinity with Anne Frank.

[11] Part of the intended audience of the on-line project are students of the more than 200 schools in the world named after Anne Frank.

Additionally, horse-chestnut leaf miner moth caterpillars (Cameraria ohridella) ate the tree's leaves, causing them to turn brown prematurely and fall off.

Property owner Henric Pomes of Keizersgracht 188, adjacent to the building that is now the Anne Frank Museum, agreed to wait for the institute's proposal, due before 1 January 2008.

[17] On the same day, the Borough and the Anne Frank Foundation held a press conference during which they repeated their claim that there existed an "acute danger".

Other saplings were sent to Liberty Park in New York City, honoring victims of September 11 attacks;[23] Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas which was the center of a desegregation battle; the Clinton Presidential Center, also in Little Rock, in partnership with the city's Congregation B'nai Israel Sisterhood;[24] and sites in California,[25] Idaho,[26] Iowa,[27] Massachusetts,[27] Michigan,[28] Washington, D.C.,[29][30] and Washington state.

[32] Another of the tree's saplings grows in front of the Holocaust Education Center in Fukuyama, Japan; it was planted in January 2011.