From Treehugger comes the news that the chestnut tree that was outside Anne Frank’s attic window has fallen. It is the tree that she mentioned often in her diary. The tree was 152 years old and has been dying for some time. There was a support structure holding it up.
It says so much about the power of books and the connections they build that I have tears standing in my eyes. I haven’t read this book for years and years, but I remember it deep inside.
Others obviously do too, since there are six genetically identical species being nurtured which are already 7 feet tall. One will be planted to replace the mother tree. Others are headed to Holocaust museums around the world.
The power and connection of literature continues just as this tree will.
Waking Brain Cells 
I’m not sure which makes me weep more — that there are seven genetically identical trees prepared to leap in and make sure that the view Anne had from her window never dies, or… or just that, as Mr. Wonka said, “So shines a good deed in a weary world.”
Thank you for sharing. That is beautiful to know.
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Genetically identical simply means that someone has taken a cutting from the tree and grown it into another tree.
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Hi Tasha,
this is a sad new, even if it had been announced several times before it actually happened. That tree has a special strenght and it resisted far more than expected. You might already know about this, but a wonderful book has been published in France (and then in Italy as well) entirely devoted to that one tree: “Les arbres pleurent aussi” by Irène Cohen-Janca and illustrations by Maurizio Quarello, Editions du Rouergue. It is a superb picture book!
Cris
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