A symbol of hope comes down.

Anne Frank's diary entry from Feb. 23, 1944, reads: "From my favorite 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 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 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 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.