Miep Gies, the woman who found Anne Frank’s World War II diary and kept it safe after the Frank family was taken to concentration camps, has died just before her 101st birthday.

Gies died in a nursing home where she has lived since a fall just before Christmas, the BBC reports. She was the last survivor of the group who helped the Frank family when they went into hiding in Amsterdam during the war.
Born in February 1909 in Vienna, Gies moved to the Netherlands as a child. She worked as a secretary for Anne’s father Otto from 1933 and helped prepare the family’s hide-out in a secret annex behind his offices on the Prinsengracht in amsterdam. Both she and her husband Jan, who died in 1993, were regular visitors to the annex.
After the family was betrayed and taken by the Nazis, Gies found Anne Frank’s diary and gave it back to Otto after the war. He was the only resident of the annex to survive.
Since then, the diary has been translated into at least 55 languages and more than 20 million copies have been sold.
On her website, Gies said: ”I stand at the end of the long, long line of good Dutch people who did what I did or more – much more – during those dark and terrible times years ago, but always like yesterday in the hearts of those of us who bear witness. Never a day goes by that I do not think of what happened then.’
For the Miep Gies website, click here
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