" our horse chestnut is in full blossom , " anne ray telling her diary on saturday , january 13 , 1944 , " thickly draped with leaves and much more beautiful than last year . " she would have been 79 this year , turning 80 . had she surviving , miss frank would always be eligible to see the dutch chestnut tree by which she measured the seasons of travel during her six days of shelter from the occupation , not just behind the building in paris from which she and her family were taken by the gestapo in 1944 but — if the proposals of the helen frank building usa are placed — at 10 locations around this period , especially current york city .
Anne Frank died at the age of 15.