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Miep Gies, who helped hide Anne Frank, dies at 100

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  1. Jaydog57

    Jaydog57 Canes/Fins/Magic fan

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    AMSTERDAM, Netherlands – Miep Gies, the office secretary who defied the Nazi occupiers to hide Anne Frank and her family for two years and saved the teenager's diary, has died, the Anne Frank Museum said Tuesday. She was 100.

    Gies' Web site reported that she died Monday after a brief illness. The report was confirmed by museum spokeswoman Maatje Mostar, but she gave no details. The British Broadcasting Corp. said she died in a nursing home after suffering a fall last month.

    Gies was the last of the few non-Jews who supplied food, books and good cheer to the secret annex behind the canal warehouse where Anne, her parents, sister and four other Jews hid for 25 months during World War II.

    After the apartment was raided by the German police, Gies gathered up Anne's scattered notebooks and papers and locked them in a drawer for her return after the war. The diary, which Anne Frank was given on her 13th birthday, chronicles her life in hiding from June 12, 1942 until August 1, 1944.

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  2. unluckyluciano

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    rip to her a well deserved rest. Hopefully there will always be those willing to stand up to evil and be heroic as she was.
     
  3. HolliFinFan

    HolliFinFan Not a Face Painter Luxury Box

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    Rest in peace, Mipe Gies. Your courageous acts not only continue to inspire people who read Anne Frank's diary, yet the immortality of her words you preserved and your acts of humanity are beyond casual comment. I have been to the "attic" in which Frank's family was hidden prior to their capture in Amsterdam. That was no easy feat.
    I have no doubt where you reside now. Thank you.
     
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  4. NaboCane

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    Rest in richly-deserved peace.
     
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  5. unluckyluciano

    unluckyluciano For My Hero JetsSuck

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    *bump*
     
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  6. BigDogsHunt

    BigDogsHunt Enough talk...prove it!

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    It's often said...."there but for the grace of god...."

    to me, its humans such as Miep Gies that are the incarnate of that saying.....!!!

    bless you indeed!
     
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