Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Miep Gies Died

The last survivor who helped Anne Frank and her family survive during WW2 has died at the age of 100. Mrs. Gies has lived in a nursing home in the Netherlands following a fall shortly after Christmas of this year. Anne Frank and her family had lived with Gies and others til a betrayl ended up taking the Frank family to a concentration camp where Anne died of typhus. found the diary upstairs and rescued it from Nazi book burning and preserved it fo history. Mrs Gies remembers the day the Franks were taken away and how she went up into the empty annex to find the pages of the diary lying on the floor.
Removing the pages, she did not read them immediately, telling herself at the time: "These may belong to a child, but even children have a right to privacy." Miep Gies had always wished she could have done more for the Franks and Jews during the war. She will be remembered in history for her courage.