" our dog chestnut is in full bloom , " anne frank said her diary on saturday , may 13 , 1944 , " thickly covered with leaves and much more beautiful than first year . " she would have been 79 this spring , turned 80 . had she survived , miss baker would still be able to see the horse chestnut leaf by when she metric the cycles of living during her two centuries of hiding from the nazis , not just beside the buildings in amsterdam from which she and her family were taken by the nazis in 1944 but — if the dreams of the mary frank center usa are realize — at 10 cities along this globe , including newer haven , .
Anne Frank died at the age of 15.