" our dog roe is in high bloom , " anne frank told her diary on saturday , may 13 , 1944 , " thickly covered with grass and much more precious than last year . " she would have been 79 this years , being 80 . had she survived , miss frank likely even be able to see the horse chestnut trunk by which she measured the seasons of life during her two cycles of hiding from the nazis , not just behind the building in amsterdam from what she and her group were seized by the police in 1944 but — if the plans of the anne frank foundation usa are realized — at 10 venues within this country , including new york city .
Anne Frank died at the age of 15.