How would Anne Frank look if she had lived to see 80?

The Anne Frank Trust U.K. has released a photo showing how the Holocaust diarist Anne Frank would have looked had she lived to see her 80th birthday, the Daily Telegraph reported on Sunday.

The picture, which was released ahead of Anne Frank's 80th birthday this Friday, uses age progression technology to depicts the iconic diarist as she may have looked had she not perished from typhus and starvation at the age of 15 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.

Frank, one of the Holocaust's enduring symbols, hid for two years along with her family in an Amsterdam attic, until they were all arrested by the Nazis following an information tip.

Her diary, which was written over the course of her time in hiding, was first published in Dutch in 1947 and has since been translated into 60 languages. The diary remains one of the most candid and chilling accounts of Jewish life during the Holocaust.

Eva Schloss, Anne's half-sister and an Auschwitz survivor, was unsettled by viewing the picture of her childhood playmate for the first time on Thursday.

"I must say I was a bit shocked... I don't really know why," she said, adding that the picture was of "a beautiful lady, very gentle, very kind-looking with this gentle smile."

However, Dr Schloss believes the loss of her mother and sister and Anne's experiences in Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen would have left more of a mark if she had indeed lived.

"Personally I think she would have been more bitter and disappointed. I don't see anything of this in the picture," Schloss said.

The aged image was produced by a Michigan firm called Phojoe which has worked with U.S. police on dozens of missing persons cases.

	Ann Frank at 80 as imagined in 'age progression' photo.
	Photo by: (Daily Telegraph)