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11 sites selected for ’Anne Frank tree’ saplings

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Associated Press
Published Oct. 16, 2009, 2:48 p.m. ET
ANNE FRANK used the tree to keep track of passing seasons, watching it through a window. "From my favorite spot on the floor I look up at the blue sky and the bare chestnut tree, on whose branches little raindrops shine, appearing like silver, and at the seagulls and other birds as they glide on the wind," she wrote in her famous diary on Feb. 23, 1944. AP

Eleven sites have been selected to receive saplings derived from the chestnut tree that consoled Anne Frank as she hid during Nazi occupation in Amsterdam.

The Anne Frank Center USA in Manhattan announced sites dedicated to fighting intolerance.

They include Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas, site of forced desegregation in 1957; and holocaust centers in Seattle; Farmington Hills, Mich.; Boise, Idaho; and California’s Sonoma State University.

Also chosen: former President Bill Clinton’s foundation in Little Rock; Boston Common; and New York’s Southern Cayuga Central School District.

The White House, the World Trade Center site and the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis were selected previously.

The 150-year-old tree is battling lethal fungus.