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Anne Frank Tree Spared
A chestnut tree in Holland is in the news this week. The tree was scheduled to be cut down because it's infected with a deadly fungus. But people want to save the tree because it's a symbol of something important.
A young girl named Anne Frank wrote about the chestnut tree in her diary. Anne lived in a house next to the tree during World War II. During the war, the Nazis occupied the Netherlands. They rounded up and killed many Jews. The Frank family was Jewish and had to go into hiding.
Anne and her family could never leave their house, or even look out a window, for fear of being found. Anne could only see the chestnut tree through a skylight because the rest of the windows were blocked out. The tree was her only glimpse of the outside and it gave her hope. After two years of hiding, the Nazis found Anne's family and sent them to concentration camps.
Anne's house in Amsterdam is now the Anne Frank Museum. A judge ordered that the tree can live for five more years. It will be trimmed and braced with a steel ring to keep it from falling. Anne died in one of the camps in 1945, but the tree she loved to look at still stands.
I'm Michelle and that's what happened in the world this week.
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