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Anne Frank Tree online

Thursday 2 February 2006  –  Filed under: Work  –  1 Comment

Yesterday, Emma Thompson launched the online Anne Frank Tree, a project Lost Boys and Unit32 have been working on in close collaboration. At the website, you can visit the chestnut tree Anne wrote about in her diary online and leave your own leaf.

The project is partly Flash, partly HTML. In the Flash part you see the tree from below, as if lying on your back. The branches and leafs are gently rocking in the wind, giving the whole a distinct and serene atmosphere.

From the website (or perhaps more appropriate: monument):

Anne Frank often looked from the attic window at the chestnut tree behind the secret annex. She wrote about it in her diary. Now the more than 150 year old tree is diseased, but online it will live on. Leave your leaf in the virtual chestnut tree, forward it and keep Anne Frank’s ideals alive.
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Anne wanted be useful to others after the war. Not only to the people around her, but also to people she did not know. Anne did not survive the Holocaust but her diary has inspired millions of people all over the world to do their best for a better world. Anne’s wish came true after all.
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With your leaf you can show that you too have been inspired by the diary of Anne Frank.

Head over to the Anne Frank Tree and leave your leaf. And while you’re there, you might want to give the screensaver a try as well.

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