Tagarchieven: Anne Frank

“Our chestnut tree is in full blossom. It is covered with leaves and is even more beautiful than last year…” – Anne Frank, 13 May 1944 (cited on Wikipedia)” On Monday 23 August at approximately 13.30 (source nrc.nl) the most famous chesnut tree in the world finally succombed to sickness and old age. The Anne Frank tree stood for 150 years in the garden of Prinsengracht 263 but high winds on Monday proved too much for both the tree and the steel construction which was built around it in 2008. For Anne, this chesnut tree probably symbolised … Lees verder →