Anne Frank Tree to Be Planted on Capitol Lawn; Frank Hid from Nazis Until Captured at Age 15

A sapling grown from the chestnut tree that gave Anne Frank solace while she was hiding from the Nazis will be planted on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol, the AFP (Agence France-Presse) website reports today (April 9, 2014).

The original tree collapsed in 2010 in Amsterdam, Holland, but it lives on in offshoots like the one that will be planted in Washington, DC on April 30.

The National Journal notes a passage from Frank's diary in February 1944: "(We) looked out at the blue sky, the bare chestnut tree glistening with dew, the seagulls and other birds glinting with silver as they swooped through the air, and we were so moved and entranced that we couldn't speak."

Frank would be captured by Nazis about six months later and taken to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where she died at the age of 15.