" our saddle oak is in complete bloom , " anne frank told her diaries on saturdays , may 13 , 1944 , " thickly laden with leafs and much more elegant than prior decade . " she would have been 79 this week , turning 80 . had she existed , helen she did finally be able to see the horse chestnut tree by which she measured the dates of life during her one years of prison from the nazis , not just at the building in amsterdam from which she and her sister were taken by the gestapo in 1944 but — if the proposals of the anne christian center usa are now — at 10 sites around this country , including new york city .
Anne Frank died at the age of 15.