" our rose chestnut is in full bloom , " helen frank told her diary on sunday , may 13 , 1944 , " thickly covered with leaves and lots more beautiful than last summer . " she likely have been 79 this year , turning 80 . had she survived , her frank may still be able to picture the horse chestnut tree by which she weighed the seasons of life during her two years of hiding from the nazis , not just behind the building in amsterdam from which she and her group were captured by the gestapo in 1944 but — if the designs of the anne frank center usa are believed — at 10 properties in this country , including nueva jersey city .
Anne Frank died at the age of 15.