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WTC To Receive “Anne Frank Tree” Sapling
By: Doug CaverlyFriday, October 16th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
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 saplings 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.
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March 1st, 2011 at 4:11 pm
Hi,
Just letting you know that is a wonderful story about the Anne Frank sapling…let us all never forget the evils that is out there. I love and great hope goes to all who lost a loved one on 9/11. Anne Frank will be pleased with the tree that will give all a vision that the goodness of all must be remembered.
Thank you
Shalom
Gfranqui
August 23rd, 2010 at 3:31 pm
Really, really dissapointing,
The Anne Frank Tree felt down today.
http://www.nu.nl/binnenland/2317http://www.nu.nl/binnenland/2317828/anne-frankboom-omgewaaid.html828/anne-frankboom-omgewaaid.html
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/08/23/tree-beloved-by-anne-frank-falls-down/