AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, March 10 (UPI) -- The Amsterdam tree that was Anne Frank's link to the outside world will live on in the form of cuttings that will be planted before the tree is cut down.
The city council this week formally signed off on the plan to remove the 150-year-old chestnut tree that stands outside the home where Frank and her family hid from German Nazi occupiers during World War II.
The 27-ton tree has been afflicted with a fungus that could eventually topple it, so the city has agreed to remove it in orderly fashion. Before that, however, grafts will be taken and replanted in the courtyard of the home that has become the Anne Frank Museum, the BBC said Saturday.
Anne Frank was a Jewish teenager who penned an emotional diary while she and her family hid from the Nazis in a small attic apartment. She wrote of seeing the tree from her window before she and her family was discovered and arrested in 1944.
