Miep Gies helped hide the Frank family and saved Anne's diary.
Miep Gies, the last survivor of a small group of people who protected the Frank family from Nazis for two years became a centenarian on Sunday.
Gies had worked as secretary for Anne Frank’s father from 1933 and readily helped the family go into hiding in 1942.
When the family’s hiding place was raided in 1944, Gies gathered Anne’s scattered papers and notebooks. She didn’t read them, rather she kept them safely locked in a desk drawer awaiting Anne’s return.
Gies gave the papers to Anne’s father Otto, the only survivor among the eight people who had been hiding in a concealed attic in a building owned by Otto’s company. Gies resumed working for Otto, this time helping him as he compiled and edited Anne’s diary and devoted herself to speaking about the diary and answering letters from around world.
Anne Frank Remembered by Miep Gies
In 1947 Otto Frank published the diary which was released in English as The Diary of a Young Girl in 1952.
Gies published her own book Anne Frank Remembered in 1987 and a new edition is due to be released this year.
Gies protests the attention she has received saying that she has been given more accolades for helping the Frank family that she deserved.
“This is very unfair. So many others have done the same or even far more dangerous work,” she wrote in an e-mail.
Despite her protests the fact remains without her saving Anne’s papers, we might have been without The Diary of Anne Frank, a significant book in world and literary history.
i really love this book! And i also admire Mrs.Miep and i would like to meet her Someday and have at least one opportunity to talk with her and ask her some things about Anne..i would like to know how was her! and i wanted to know if Mrs. Miep has Anne`s diary also!