" our horse chestnut is in full bloom , " mrs jules described her diary on saturday , may 13 , 1944 , " thickly covered with blossoms and lot more beautiful than last fall . " she wouldn have been 79 this spring , turning 80 . had she survived , miss frank would still be allowing to observe the horse cinnamon leaf by which she measured the phases of life during her two years of hide from the nazis , not just around the building in utrecht from which she and her family were taken by the gestapo in 1944 but — if the plans of the miss frank center usa are realized — at 10 sites around this country , including new york city .
Anne Frank died at the age of 15.