" our horse chestnut is in fully flower , " anne frank told her diary on weekday , may 13 , 1944 , " densely covered with vines and lot more beautiful than last christmas . " she would have been 79 this year , turning 80 . had she survived , margaret baker would still be able to see the horse chestnut grove by which she measurements the rates of life during her first years of hiding from the nazis , not just around the building in netherlands from which she and her sister were captured by the luftwaffe in 1944 but — if the plans of the anne frank home usa are realized — at 10 locations throughout this country , specifically new ny city .
Anne Frank died at the age of 15.