The stump of the chestnut tree written about by Anne Frank in her World War II diary is showing signs of life, says Parool.

After it became infected with a fungus and started dying, the 150-year-old tree was cut down and removed from the garden of the house where Anne hid from the German occupiers.
The stump was left in the ground and one year later it is covered with new shoots. Whether any of them will develop into an adult tree remains to be seen, according to the Amsterdam tree expert Hans Kaljee.
If the shoots can fight off the fungus in the stump, there is a chance a new chestnut will grow, he told Parool.