Miep Gies, the woman who recovered Anne Frank’s diary, has died at 100.
Miep Gies signs the guestbook at Yad Vashem, May 6, 1977 [photo courtesy Yad Vashem]
Gies, who died Monday in the Netherlands, was the last surviving
member of the small group that hid Anne Frank and her family from the
Nazis. After the arrest of the Frank family by the Gestapo in 1944,
Gies returned to the attic where they had been hiding, and found the
diary.
"Miep Gies was a beacon of light during the dark days of the
Holocaust," said Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and dean of the Simon
Wiesenthal Center. "Without her, the world would never have known
about Anne Frank and hundreds of millions of people would never have
been inspired by her story."
