LITERATURE

 

 

There have been many poems, texts, and magazine and newspaper articles written about the Anne Frank Tree.  

 

The Dutch poet Jos Versteegen wrote three poems about this special tree and what it meant for Anne. Read the poem here: "Weisse Kerzen" - unfortunately not yet in English.

The poems of Jos Versteegen were also put to music by the Dutch composer Paul Prenen and the German composer Johannes Eckmann.

The tree has also inspired the theater world. Olga Eigenbrood created a piece about the struggle to save the Anne Frank tree which has been performed several times in Dutch and in German: first in 2008 in Dutch in Amsterdam, in 2009 in German in the art centre of Markdorf and later on of that year in Mannheim in the Jewish center.