Miep Gies: Protector of Anne Frank dies at 100

The Irish Times
Wednesday, January 13, 2010

MIEP GIES, who helped hide Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis and saved her famous diary after the family was deported, has died just days before her 101st birthday.

Born in Vienna, Gies was brought to the Netherlands aged 11 and she befriended the Frank family after beginning work for Anne’s father, Otto, in 1933.

She was the last living member of the small group that helped hide the family in a hidden Amsterdam annex after the Nazis began rounding up Jews for deportation. the rest