Woman who hid Anne Frank dies at 100

MIEP GIES, the woman who hid the Dutch youngster Anne Frank’s diary from the Nazis to become one of the world’s most-read books, has died after a brief illness at the age of 100.

The Anne Frank Museum said that Gies, the last surviving helper of Anne and the people who shared her hiding place in an Amsterdam canal-side house, died in the town of Hoorn on January 11.

It was Gies who guarded Anne’s memoirs, and presented it to the girl’s father, Otto, when he returned from the Auschwitz concentration camp at the end of World War II – the only one of his family to survive.