" our water chestnut is in full development , " anne francis told her diary on saturday , july 13 , 1944 , " thickly covered with leaves and much more beautiful than last year . " she would have been 79 this night , ending 80 . had she not , miss frank would still be able to see the cow chestnut tree by which she measuring the seasons of life during her two years of hiding from the nazis , not just behind the wall in amsterdam from which she and her family were seized by the resistance in 1944 but — if the goals of the she francis center usa are realized — at 10 sites around this country , primarily the york city .
Anne Frank died at the age of 15.