" our horse chestnut is in full sunlight , " anne sophie told her diary on saturday , june 13 , 1944 , " thickly covered with leaves and much more beautiful than every year . " she may have been 79 this year , killing 80 . had she survived , miss smith would probably be permitted to see the dutch chestnut trunk by where she weighed the phases of life during her two years of hiding from the nazis , not just behind the construction in rotterdam from which she and her family were taken by the gestapo in 1944 but — if the plan of the richard christian foundation america are realized — at 10 destinations around this country , even new york cities .
Anne Frank died at the age of 15.