WASHINGTON — A sapling grown from the tree that Holocaust victim Anne Frank wrote about while in hiding will be planted this month on the US Capitol grounds, congressional leaders announced Tuesday. 
 
 “The Anne Frank memorial tree is an offspring of the horse chestnut tree that was featured in Anne’s diary writings,” House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wrote in a letter to members of Congress. 
 
 The tree “grew outside of the Amsterdam building where she and her family hid from the Nazis during World War II,” they explained. 
 
 The planting on the Capitol’s west front lawn will occur during a ceremony April 30. 
 
 The young tree is among several saplings created from the original tree, which collapsed outside the Amsterdam annex in 2010. 
 
 Frank wrote her observations from June 1942 to August 1944, while the Jewish girl and her family remained in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands. 
 
 She was captured August 4, 1944, and she died seven months later at age 15 at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. 
 
 Her diary was rescued by a family friend, and through the help of Anne’s father Otto Frank was published and eventually translated into more than 60 languages, including in English as “The Diary of a Young Girl.” ||||| The Capitol will soon be home to the offspring of the very chestnut tree that grew outside of the secret annex where Anne Frank and her family were sheltered during World War II. 
 
 Members of Congress will gather at the end of the month to plant the sapling, one of about 100 that were cut from the original tree in Amsterdam when it collapsed during a windstorm in 2010. The saplings have since been sent all over the world, where they are being planted in memory of the Holocaust. 
 
 Frank actually wrote about the tree in her diary on three occasions. "The two of us 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," she wrote, of looking out the window with Peter van Pels in February, 1944. 
 
 The United States' 11 saplings have been under quarantine since 2010 to ensure that they are healthy enough for planting, while sites all over the country have competed to house the young trees. Five were planted last year at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis, Sonoma State University in California, Southern Cayuga School District in New York, Boston Common, and the Holocaust Memorial Center in Michigan. 
 
 This year, the Capitol and the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Ark., will each receive a tree as well. The remaining four will be planted at the Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center in Seattle, Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas, the Idaho Human Rights Education Center, and at the 9/11 memorial in New York City in the near future. 
 
 "We were really looking for sapling sites that matched our mission," Rebecca Faulkner of the Anne Frank Center USA said Wednesday. "These 11 sites were representative of the entire United States." 
 
 The planting ceremony at the West Front Lawn of the Capitol, which is located on the Senate side of the building, is scheduled for April 30. All four members of congressional leadership are slated to attend.
– A sapling grown from the chestnut tree that gave Anne Frank solace while hiding from the Nazis will be planted on the lawn of the US Capitol, reports AFP. The original tree collapsed in 2010 in Amsterdam, but it lives on in offshoots like the one that will be planted in 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 about six months later and taken to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where she died at age 15.