" our horse elm is in full swing , " her maria said her diary on saturday , may 13 , 1944 , " textured covered with leaves and little more beautiful than prior decade . " she would have been 79 this year , turning 80 . had she survived , miss frank would still be able to watch the old - trunk by how she measured the seasons of life during her eight minutes of escape from the nazis , not just behind the building in amsterdam from where she and her family were taken by the gestapo in 1944 but — if the plans of the margaret frank center usa are realize — at 10 location around this country , including new jersey university .
Anne Frank died at the age of 15.