Amsterdam’s city council gave the owner of the chestnut tree that comforted Anne Frank while she was in hiding a license to cut it down. The 150-year-old tree has been attacked by a fungus and is in danger of falling down. The tree is familiar to the millions of readers of The Diary of Anne Frank.It stands in the courtyard of the ”secret annex,” the canal-side warehouse where her family hid during the Nazi occupation.The Jewish teen made references to it in the diary she kept in the 25 months she remained indoors until the family was arrested in August 1944.
(Sun Times)
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Where are the YW readers? This post has been up at least a half hour and not one accusation yet of anti-semitism.
Must be an anti-semitic conspiracy against Jews. There is something suspicious and sinister about all this. Most likely an attempt to symbolically ‘cut down’ the Jews. We must get the ADL, Bnai B’rith, and the AJC involved for a protest.
Where’s Abe and Malcolm??? Did somebody tell them???