Miep Gies, Anne Frank’s Savior Passes Away
January 12th, 2010 - 8:21 pm ICT by GDBy Ranjan Bhaduri
Jan 12, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The woman who offered a helping hand to Anne Frank and her family during the Second World War, has passed away. She is the one who preserved the famous diary of Anne Frank. She died on Monday, at the age of 100. The family of Anne Frank hid in Amsterdam in a back house for two years, since 1942. When the Nazis traced the family and seized them forcibly, it was Miep Gies who crept in the house secretly and collected the diary of the girl. The lady wrote a book named “Anne Frank Remembered”- where she denied that she did anything special or heroic. She wrote that over 20,000 Dutch people aided the Jews to find a shelter from the torture of the Nazis and she was one of them.
Miep Gies also mentioned she did what was needful at that time and it was not something extraordinary. The feelings of Anne Frank, that she wrote during the closeted life later became a valuable document of the troubled times of World War II. Millions of copies of that diary have been published in several languages all over the world. After the capture, the family of Anne Frank was taken to the infamous Auschwitz death camp. Only her father returned alive to Amsterdam after the war came to an end.
Miep Gies used to work under Otto Frank. The latter shifted to Holland in 1933 following Adolf Hitler’s rise in Germany. She, along with some other employees helped the Frank family during the traumatic phase. Miep Gies passed away after a brief and unspecified illness.
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