Former US president urges public to "remember the wisdom" of Anne Frank at the opening of a new installation at his presidential library.
By REUTERSFormer US president Bill Clinton pays tribute to Anne Frank at the opening of a new installation at his presidential library in Little Rock, Arkansas, October 2, 2015(photo credit: screenshot)
Former US president Bill Clinton paid tribute on Friday to Anne Frank, the Jewish teenager whose diary entries, published in "Diary of a Young Girl" gave generations an intimate look at life under German occupation.Saplings from a Chestnut tree in front of Frank's house in the Netherlands will be planted outside Clinton's presidential library Little Rock, Arkansas as part of a permanent installation.The former president urged the audience, which included hundreds of schoolchildren to remember the "wisdom of a 14-year-old girl who in her spirit life is depending on us to redeem the years she could not have."Clinton Foundation staff said the saplings will likely spend several weeks in a green house before being planted in order to adjust to the different climate in Little Rock.