MIEP GIES, 100
She was one of six non-Jews who provide Anne Frank and her family with supplies from July 1941 to August 1944 at a secret warehouse annex in Amsterdam during German occupation.
All she ever had to say about herself was, "There is nothing special about me."
After the Germans capture the Franks family, she gathered up scattered papers of Anne's diary and stored them away unread until Anne's father Otto returned, the only survivor of the family. She said she didn't read them because a teenagers privacy is scared.
Otto Franks published the diary in 1947.
Miep Gies was born in Austria in 1909 and moved to Amsterdam in 1920 to escape food shortages. Her host family gave her the name Miep. In 1933, she got a job as an office assistant in Otto Frank's spice business.
She refused to join the Nazis and in 1941, to avoid deportation, married her Dutch boyfriend Jan Gies.
In July 1942, Otto asked her to help hide his family in the annex above the company's canal-side warehouse at Prinsengracht 263. She also had to bring food and supplies along her husband and four other employees.
From the Jan. 12 US Today.
A Job Well Done.
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