Miep Gies died on Monday, January 11 at the age of 100. She was one of the people who helped hide Anne Frank, her family and four other people in the Secret Annex for two years during the holocaust. Gies is the person who kept Anne's diary after she was taken away to the Concentration Camp -- because of her and Otto Frank, we have The Diary of a Young Girl and Anne, in a way, will live on forever.
Gies says on her website that she is not a hero, that she was just doing what other people also did, and that even that was not enough. But she risked her life to hide the Franks and the other people in the Annex, and she (and the other helpers) reminds us of the basic goodness of people, of the best of human courage and generosity and we owe her a debt of gratitude for even trying.
Here's Miep Gies website: http://www.miepgies.nl/en/
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