Planting Hope: The Anne Frank Tree Arrives in Iowa
The Anne Frank Tree was planted on the University of Iowa Pentacrest on April 29, 2022. The story of how the Anne Frank Tree came to the university is featured in Planting Hope: The Anne Frank Tree Arrives in Iowa.
"In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart."--Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl.
- Anne Frank's Story in Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, February 25, 2022 (Video)This session will provide an overview of the upcoming UI Provost’s Global Forum on “Teaching Anne Frank,” the Anne Frank tree planting ceremony, and the exhibit. This forum brings together a multi-disciplinary panel of experts from Iowa and across Europe between February 28 - March 2, 2022, to highlight the educational value and continuing relevance of Anne Frank's story. UNESCO'S 2014 publication, Holocaust Education in a Global Context, outlines the role Holocaust education can play in tackling difficult issues of the past in diverse national and cultural contexts. In particular, this program will address: How did Anne’s story surface in Iowa in the first place and what are its larger goals and implications? How do we envision the Anne Frank tree to “grow” and “branch out” on our campus and in our community? What is the purpose of the Provost’s Global Forum? What events lead up to the planting ceremony on April 29 and how can you participate?
The Tree in the Courtyard: Looking Through Anne Frank's Window by Call Number: UI Main Library Stacks PZ7.G6939 Tr 2016ISBN: 9780385753975Publication Date: 2016-03-08Told from the perspective of the tree outside Anne Frank's window-and illustrated by a Caldecott Honor artist-this book introduces her story in a gentle and incredibly powerful way to a young audience. The tree in the courtyard was a horse chestnut. Her leaves were green stars; her flowers foaming cones of white and pink. Seagulls flocked to her shade. She spread roots and reached skyward in peace. The tree watched a little girl, who played and laughed and wrote in a diary. When strangers invaded the city and warplanes roared overhead, the tree watched the girl peek out of the curtained window of the annex. It watched as she and her family were taken away-and when her father returned after the war, alone. The tree died the summer Anne Frank would have turned eighty-one, but its seeds and saplings have been planted around the world as a symbol of peace. Its story, and Anne's story, are beautifully told and illustrated in this powerful picture book.
Anne Frank and Remembering Tree by Call Number: Request through Interlibrary LoanISBN: 9781558967380Publication Date: 2015-03-01This is a story of Anne Frank and her sister Margot, who loved a tree, and the tree who promised never to forget them. An age-appropriate way to introduce children to the Holocaust. I had always looked into the windows of the houses around the courtyard. In most windows, I saw people working and children playing. When the soldiers came, people began covering their windows, so I couldn't see inside anymore. But the tiny attic window of the narrow brick house behind Otto Frank's business offices had no window shade. For a long time, the rooms were empty. Then one day, Otto's whole family came to live there. They called their new home the Secret Annex. . . .
Anne Frank's Chestnut Tree by Call Number: Request through Interlibrary LoanISBN: 9780449812556Publication Date: 2013-09-24Hidden away in their Secret Annex in Amsterdam during World War II, Anne Frank and her family could not breathe fresh air or see the blue sky for years. But through an attic window Anne could see the branches of a tall chestnut tree. This small glimpse of nature gave Anne hope and courage. It inspired her writing, which, in turn, inspired the whole world. Jane Kohuth explores Anne Frank's strong belief in the healing power of nature.
- "The Horse Chestnut"A chapter describing the Horse Chestnut tree in Among Green Trees: A Guide to Pleasant and Profitable Acquaintance with Familiar Trees by Julie Ellen Rogers (1902).
