A symbol of hope comes down.

• Position: THE HOLOCAUST - Brief article

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...