" our horse chestnut is in great bloom , " anne german told her diary on saturday , may 13 , 1944 , " thinly buried with vines and much more beautiful than last year . " she would have been 79 this week , turning 80 . had she survived , miss she d still be able to reach the tree chestnut , by which she gauge the dates of life during her two years of captivity from the nazis , not just behind the factory in amsterdam from which she and her family were pulled by the gestapo in 1944 but — if the planning of the anne frank memorial america are realized — at 10 centers round this country , including new york university .
Anne Frank died at the age of 15.