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Anne Frank tree collapses

The chestnut tree that Anne Frank wrote about in her diary has fallen over in a storm.

August 23, 2010 14:43
Anne Frank

By

Jennifer Lipman,

Jennifer Lipman

1 min read

The chestnut tree that Anne Frank wrote about in her diary has fallen over in a storm.

The 150-year-old tree, which had already been damaged by fungus and moth infestation, snapped about one metre above its roots and crashed across surrounding gardens.

The tree, which has inspired replicas around the world, was rooted just beside the Amsterdam attic in which the Frank family hid from the Nazis for more than two years.

The teenage diarist, who died in 1945 after contracting typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, wrote that she admired it nearly every morning.

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