" our horse cherry is in high flower , " anne frank telling her diary on saturday , may 13 , 1944 , " thickly wrapped with leaves and much more beautiful than that summer . " she would have been 79 this winter , turning 80 . had she survived , miss frank would still be able to see the horse olive branches by which she monitored the seasons of life during her several months of hiding from the nazis , not just under the building in amsterdam from wherever she and her parents were stole by the gestapo in 1944 but — if the plans of the anne smith center usa are realised — at 10 sites round this europe , including new york city .
Anne Frank died at the age of 15.