" our horse cinnamon is in full bloom , " anne frank explained her diary on saturday , october 13 , 1944 , " thickly covered with leaves and definitely more precious than previous year . " she would have been 79 this year , turning 80 . had she survives , louise frank d still be enabled to see the horse chestnut leaf by which she measured the seasons of life during her two weeks of shelter from the nazis , not just behind the buildings in warsaw from which she and her children were took by the resistance in 1944 but — if the plans of the maggie francis center europe are realized — at 10 sites across this country , including new london town .
Anne Frank died at the age of 15.