Anne Frank tree falls in storm today

[Marco]

The big winds today were too much for the tree that sat outside the house that Anne Frank and her family hid in during WWII.

Very sad to lose a living connection to that era. Between trees, veterans and survivors, they are going at an alarming rate.

http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/7456 ... html?p=1,1

[Marco]

Frank's Diary of a Young Girl, has blown down. A spokesperson for the Anne Frank House said "there was a fierce gust of wind, we heard a noise and when we went to look it was lying on the ground."

The tree is mentioned three times in her diary. On 23 February 1944 she wrote: "… from my favourite spot on the floor I look up at the blue sky and the bare chestnut tree, on whose branches little raindrops shine… while this lasts I cannot be unhappy."


The horse chestnut is thought to be between 150 and 170 years old and has suffered both a fungus and a moth infestation. In November 2007 the city council ordered it cut down because of the risk it could fall, but a court injunction stopped the felling. In 2008 a structure was erected around it to support the crown.

© Radio Netherlands Worldwide

[Rufus]

I find this very sad too it wasn't just a tree but a very emotive piece of history...

[gixxer]

thats sad,,,,think i read somewhere that 150 cuttings had been taken from this tree to be sent worldwide

[Star]

I know where it is me being me, it's upright no supports yet and stands out too if you know it even though it's years since this argument started to wear me thin as to HorseChestnut does conkers and 5 fingered leaves i still look down making sure he's in for the 1 night per millenium rather than street life independant maybe but still knows I check him once because he's the most nicest Lad i've met and only wanted to see if he's all good. Around 10.00pm until 10.30ish just to know he's in for the night and i got shit butties to be buttering for 7am,Washing and Laundry for pitance no problem then dry for the evening to follow with Sumbhul with shit chilli saice, not SweetTai again to out do or slipped in out for a while with my old backpack after vacating it's owners from life i believe it was ownerless in England with just one wheel left of it lil more Edna mmmmm makes my toes curl...Love you Dadxxx

[Marco]

I know where it is me being me, it's upright no supports yet and stands out too if you know it even though it's years since this argument started to wear me thin as to HorseChestnut does conkers and 5 fingered leaves i still look down making sure he's in for the 1 night per millenium rather than street life independant maybe but still knows I check him once because he's the most nicest Lad i've met and only wanted to see if he's all good. Around 10.00pm until 10.30ish just to know he's in for the night and i got shit butties to be buttering for 7am,Washing and Laundry for pitance no problem then dry for the evening to follow with Sumbhul with shit chilli saice, not SweetTai again to out do or slipped in out for a while with my old backpack after vacating it's owners from life i believe it was ownerless in England with just one wheel left of it lil more Edna mmmmm makes my toes curl...Love you Dadxxx

stop please

[Kingdoc]

Its not to far from my digs as well,Still the saplings will live on elsewhere .

[Dave J]

Slightly ot, but why was the garden\tree never part of the tour when you go round the house?.

As having read the book in school as a kid it was something I wanted to go see when I visited the house a few years back. But from what I could tell there was never any access to the garden for the public and looking through a gap in 1 of the windows all we could see was a very over grown garden that was left to ruin anyways.

[darkglobe]

One year later and it Looks like the Chestnut tree is coming back to life - http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2 ... gns_of.php

[tuttiflutes]

One year later and it Looks like the Chestnut tree is coming back to life - http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2 ... gns_of.php

What a nice ancedote for my birthday..
tutti

[AdanacDave]

We Will Remeber.

[HowardMarks]

Strange, that new article says:

After it became infected with a fungus and started dying, the 150-year-old tree was cut down and removed from the garden of the house where Anne hid from the German occupiers. '

I thought it was blown down in a storm? Or so the first article says! Weird..