A symbol of hope comes down.
Anne Frank's diary entry from Feb. 23, 1944, reads: "From my favorite My Favorite is an independent synthpop band from Long Island, New York. They released two CDs: Love at Absolute Zero and Happiest Days of Our Lives. My Favorite broke up on September 14, 2005, when singer Andrea Vaughn left the band. spot on the floor I took at the blue sky and the bare chestnut tree, on whose branches little raindrops shine ... while this lasts I cannot be unhappy." Now, the tree that comforted a teenage girl hiding from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic during World War II is diseased and must be cut down. The Anne Frank House The Anne Frank House on the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, is a museum dedicated to Jewish wartime diarist Anne Frank, who hid from Nazi persecution with her family and four other people in hidden rooms at the rear of the building. Museum plans to replace it using grafts from the original tree. In 1942, Anne, her sister, parents, and four other Jews went into hiding in the attic In the Attic can refer to: - In The Attic (webcast)
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above her father's office. On Aug. 4, 1944, their hideout was raided and they were sent to concentration camps. Only Anne's father, Otto, survived. Anne, 15, and her sister, Margot, 19, died of typhus typhus, any of a group of infectious diseases caused by microorganisms classified between bacteria and viruses, known as rickettsias. Typhus diseases are characterized by high fever and an early onset of rash and headache. at the Bergen-Belsen camp in Germany. Their mother, Edith, died at Auschwitz in Poland. A friend found Anne's diary and gave it to Otto Frank after the war. It was published in 1947.
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