Yep, you heard it. On August 23rd of 2010, after fighting both a fungus and moth infection, the horse-chestnut tree that Anne Frank often wrote about in her diary fell during a storm. Here's an excerpt:
"18th April 1944:
April is glorious, not too hot and not too cold, with occasional light showers. Our chestnut tree is in leaf, and here and there you can already see a few small blossoms."
Also back in January 11th 2010, Miep Gies, a dutch woman who helped hide the Franks died about one month shy of her 101st birthday. Tell how you think about this.
She had just started going through puberty if my memory serves me correctly. Elie Weisel was 15 at the start of the book and 16 by the end. Henry Golde was 11 when he was taken by the SS (probably also starting puberty or about to). Not too big of age differences there, if you ask me.
Plus the fact that she died 5 days after being freed from Bergen-Belsen just added to her legacy.
I don't quite get what you mean there. Because unless I'm reading it completely wrong, the only thing I can take from that is the biggest FML ever, to put it quite bluntly.
It's because while there are many accounts of what it was like to live in concentration camps, there were not so many about living in hiding, and then getting caught at the end of the war. Plus the fact that she died 5 days after being freed from Bergen-Belsen just added to her legacy. Plus she was a little girl during the Holocaust, and she had an interesting point of view.
i know that in a dutch tv show called "de wereld draait door" they had a item once about 4 other diarys of dutch girls that were hiding in the netherlans. 1 even also in amsterdam. about 3 of the 4 diarys they have been finding more info in the last 5 year (show was about 3 year ago) and turn to be just as exclusive storys as anna frenk (except that the ending comes sooner or made it alive. i don't recall.)
but back to point. how does the tree stand as a symbol for the holocaust? we have the book, we have the house, we have the girls mind writen. (and we might just buy a other old tree that looks alike somewhere for waaaayyyyy to much money. to replace it.) those things are more symbol for the holocaust then the tree.
