Online: http://www.thelocal.de/national/20100112-24511.html
The last living helper of Anne Frank and her family has died in the Netherlands just ahead of her 101st birthday, her son announced on Tuesday.
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Austrian-born Miep Gies, known for her role in helping to hide the Jewish family Frank in Amsterdam from Nazis during the
Second World War, passed away in a retirement home on Monday evening, her son
Paul Gies said.
Born February 15, 1909 in Vienna as
Hermine Santrouschitz, Gies hid and cared for the Franks and other Jewish families during the war at the risk of her own life. Just hours after the Frank family’s hiding place was discovered by the Gestapo on August 4, 1944, Gies returned to their hideout to save Anne Frank’s now legendary diary, which she wrote between 1942 and 1944.
Anne died close to her 16th birthday of typhus at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945 – just a few weeks before the end of the war.
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