Anne Frank tree is to be felled ...

"Nearly every morning I go to the attic to blow the stuffy air out of my lungs, from my favourite spot on the floor I look up at the blue sky and the bare chestnut tree, on whose branches little raindrops shine, appearing like silver, and at the seagulls and other birds as they glide on the wind. As long as this exists, I thought, and I may live to see it, this sunshine, the cloudless skies, while this lasts I cannot be unhappy." The famous chestnut tree that Anne Frank wrote in her diary was scheduled to be taken down on Wednesday, November 21. Originally, they postponed the taking down of the tree to give objectors an opportunity to come up with some kind of a plan which would enable the owner of the building in whose garden the tree is located to preserve the tree. Unfortunately, the risk of trunk breaking was so huge that they couldn't wait with this sad event any longer. After the felling, a graft from the original tree will be put in its place. In this way the tree, which is so closely connected with the memory of Anne Frank, will live on.