11.4.19

The Anne-Frank Garden ... again.


In November 2010 I already wrote about the little Anne-Frank Garden (see here), so well hidden behind some buildings that very few people manage to find their way to it, although so close to a place which receives a lot of visitors, the Centre Pompidou (see my previous posts).  

In my previous post I wrote about the chestnut tree that Anne had been looking at “nearly every morning” and which was blown down by a storm in 2010, but of which a graft had been planted here, when the Anne-Frank Garden opened in 2007. I took photos of the little tree, thus in November 2010 … and now we can see how the tree has grown.

Something which is new in the garden since my 2010-visit is a double sculpture by the German artist Aleander Polzin, to honour the memory of the Jewish-German-Romanian poet Paul Celan, who had been in camps, lost his parents during WWII, and who later lived and died in Paris. One can see a seriously tortured man and an immobile woman, with her hair covering her face, unable to see and  to act.

In the garden (from where you can see a little corner of the Centre Pompidou) very few people were around last Saturday morning – two kids with their dad…

… but one could admire all the trees in blossom!       


5 comments:

Anonymous said...

That first picture! Those roses! It makes me think of the dreamy creations of Elie Saab, Zuhair Murad, Georges Hobeika and Georges Chakra, the Lebanese fashion designers whose gowns dazzle the world...

And here's a link about Miep Gies, who tells how she, her husband Jan Gies and other brave people helped Anne Frank's family.

http://www.miepgies.nl/en/

I love all the photos you took of such a beautiful place, Peter. Thanks for telling us about Anne's tree!
Maria

Jeanie said...

This is lovely. I'm sorry I was so close to this and never saw it.

Parisbreakfasts said...

Lovely
Its been a while since I visited...since the doll museum mpnearby closed up. I must go back!

claude said...

Anne Frank méritait bien un jardin, un endroit où la vie vit, peut-être la sienne d'ailleurs.

Alexa said...

So lovely! I arrive next week and will make a point to visit this little garden. Perhaps the trees will still be in bloom (I hope).