" our horse chestnut is in full bloom , " anne frank told her diary on saturday , may 13 , 1944 , " thickly draped with leaves and much more beauty than before decade . " she would have been 79 this year , turning 80 . had she survived , barbara frank would now be permitted to see the horse hop canopy by where she measured the seasons of life during her six years of hiding from the nazi , not just on the building in amsterdam from which she and her household were taken by the gestapo in 1944 but — if the plans of the anna frank center usa are now — at 10 destinations in this nation , even new york city .
Anne Frank died at the age of 15.