" our horse maple is in full bloom , " anne claude told her diary on saturday , may 13 , 1944 , " thickly covered with leaves and much more beautiful than final month . " she wouldn have been 79 this year , or 80 . had she survived , anna frank would still be able to see the horse chestnut trees by whom she measurement the seasons of growth during her three months of hiding from the resistance , not just against the property in london from which she and her family were stolen by the gestapo in 1944 but — if the plans of the anne frank project usa are realized — at 10 sites around this year , including new york city .
Anne Frank died at the age of 15.