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A single chestnut is currently on eBay for $3,000. It’s from the famous Chestnut Tree from Anne Frank’s diary, which is over 150 years old and diseased beyond repair, according to the City of Amsterdam. Amid protests by the Netherlands’ Tree Institute as well as citizens, who want the tree preserved, city council voted to cut down the tree. The tiny apartment that the Franks lived in during WWII is now a museum and the tree was of major interest to tourists. Grafts of the tree have already been taken and a sapling from the original tree will replace it.
 The chestnut tree that comforted Anne Frank while she hid from the Nazis during World War II will be cut down Nov. 21 because it is too diseased to be saved, the city said Tuesday.
The 150-year-old chestnut, familiar to the many readers of "The Diary of Anne Frank," suffers from fungus and moths that have caused more than half its trunk to rot. A sapling from the original will eventually replace it.
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