" our rose cherry is in full swing , " eva francis wrote her book on friday , may 13 , 1944 , " thickly covered with trees and significantly more beautiful than last year . " she would have been 79 this day , becoming 80 . had she remained , miss frank would possibly be able to see the dutch walnut branch by which she measurement the ages of lives during her one years of hiding from the nazis , not just of the foundation in amsterdam from which she and her family were taken by the gestapo in 1944 but — if the plans of the anne frank center usa are realized — at 10 sites around this country , namely new ny city .
Anne Frank died at the age of 15.