" our horse chestnut is in deep bloom , " anne ray shared her journal on saturday , february 13 , 1944 , " vegetated wrapped with blossoms and much more beautiful than last winter . " she d have been 79 this year , becoming 80 . had she survives , miss frank would still be allowing to behold the horse roe tree by which she measured the seasons of freedom during her two years of hiding from the nazis , not just from the building in amsterdam from which she and her family were taken by the gestapo in 1944 but — if the plans of the anne frank center usa are realized — at 10 sites around this country , including new york ) .
Anne Frank died at the age of 15.