A woman who hid Anne Frank and her family...
Miep Gies was the last survivor of a non-Jewish group that hid Frank"s German Jewish family at a secret warehouse annex between July 1942 and August 1944, before the building was raided by the Nazi SS.
The Frank family was betrayed and seized by Nazis on August 4, 1944. Miep Gies found Anne"s diary and kept it for many years.
"More than 20,000 Dutch people helped to hide Jews and others in need of hiding during those years," Gies wrote in the prologue to her book, Anne Frank Remembered, first published in 1987. "I was only willing to do what was asked of me and what seemed necessary at the time."
Anne died of typhoid at the Bergen-Belsen Nazi concentration camp in March 1945.
Her father, Otto, was the only survivor of the family. When he returned to Amsterdam after the war, Geis gave him the diary. He pursued the publication of his daughter"s diary which told the whole world about its author. The diary is now translated into more than 70 languages.