Although the World Trade Center site is so important in relation to the September 11th attacks, it’ll eventually accommodate a significant tie to another time, too. The Anne Frank Center USA has chosen the site to receive a sapling from a tree Anne Frank wrote about.

Frank regarded a horse chestnut tree outside her house as much more than a tall hunk of wood. As Joseph Berger noted, Frank referred in her diary to looking outside “into the depth of nature and God” and being “happy, really happy.”

So it’s quite an honor for the World Trade Center site to be picked to receive a sapling. Other places and institutions selected include several Holocaust centers, the White House, and the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, along with Little Rock Central High School (which is where the issue of black integration came to a head).

The one possible hitch is that the sapling must undergo a quarantine of sorts to ensure that they don’t carry any diseases. (The original tree in Amsterdam is infected with a fungus.)

Still, since the two-year quarantine period may well pass before a place for the sapling is ready at the World Trade Center site, the timing doesn’t appear to pose any real problem.