Miep Gies, who helped hide Anne Frank, dies at 100

AP ^ | 011110 | ARTHUR MAX

[Artemis Webb]

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands – Miep Gies, the office secretary who defied the Nazi occupiers to hide Anne Frank and her family for two years and saved the teenager's diary not, has died, the Anne Frank Museum said Tuesday. She was 100.

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Gies was the last of the few non-Jews who supplied food, books and good cheer to the secret annex behind the canal warehouse where Anne, her parents, sister and four other Jews hid for 25 months during World War II.

After the apartment was raided by the German police, Gies gathered up Anne's scattered notebooks and papers and locked them in a drawer for her return after the war. The diary, which Anne Frank was given on her 13th birthday, chronicles her life in hiding from June 12, 1942 until August 1, 1944.

[dfwgator]

Watching movies rarely move me to tears, but “Anne Frank - The Whole Story” was one of those. This was the movie that showed what happened to Anne and Margot after they were discovered, through Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen where they perished.

[Lockbar]

A good person. Too rare these days. RIP.

[left that other site]

I read “The Diary of a Young Girl” when I was 10.

That was almost a half century ago.

I remembered Miep Gies’s name from all that time.

That is how much of an impression it made on me!

[dougherty]

May God rest her soul, she was a true hero.