Anne Frank’s legacy lives on in movie, film, book, musical, sitcom and saplings
An old tree was recently felled by high winds and rain, not an unusual event during dramatic summer thunderstorms in August. However, the final moments of this 160-year-old horse chestnut tree were photographed and broadcast around the world. This was the Anne Frank Tree, the tree Anne wrote about that was in the back courtyard of the canal-side building in Amsterdam where she and her family and four other Jews hid for more than two years.
Looking out of the attic window, Anne was able to keep track of the tree's seasonal changes that helped her develop a close connection with nature she had not had before and which she could now experience only through curtains and windows. "Our chestnut tree is in full bloom. It's covered with leaves and is even more beautiful than last year," Anne wrote in her diary on May 13, 1944.
Read more of this story in Cleveland Jewish News.
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