Anne Frank's helper dies aged 100
Miep Gies, the office secretary who defied the Nazi occupation regime to hide Anne Frank and her family in a concealed apartment for two years and who rescued the papers of Anne's diary, has died. She was 100.
The Anne Frank Museum's spokeswoman, Annemarie Bekker, said Ms Gies died from a neck injury she suffered in a fall at her home shortly before Christmas.
Ms Gies was the last of the few non-Jews who supplied food, books and good cheer to the secret accommodation behind the canal warehouse where Anne, her parents, sister and four other Jews hid for 25 months during the Second World War.
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Hide AdAfter the apartment was raided by the German police, Ms Gies gathered up Anne's scattered notebooks and papers and locked them in a drawer for her return after the war. The diary chronicles Anne's life in hiding between 1942 and 1944. Anne died of typhus in a concentration camp.