Miep Gies Dies at 100

Miep Gies, the woman who hid Anne Frank during World War II and then rescued Frank’s diary after Anne’s arrest, died on Monday at 100 after suffering a fall. With her husband and three others, Gies hid Frank, Frank’s family, and four other Jews in an attic an Amsterdam for 25 months. They were arrested on August 4, 1944, and after Frank’s father—the sole survivor of the group—returned after the war, Gies presented him with his daughter’s diary. “We are never far from Miep’s thoughts,” Anne wrote at one point. In her memoirs, Gies wrote, “Not a day goes by that I do not grieve for them.”