The Anne Frank Museum, through its spokeswoman, Maatje Mostart, has confirmed the death of Miep Gies, the last of the surviving non-Jews who helped the teenage diarist’s family hide from the Nazis. She was 100.
Gies and several other employees of Anne Frank’s father provided food and other necessities to the Jewish family while they hid in a concealed apartment for 25 months.
Anne Frank called them the Helpers.
Mrs. Gies is said to have found and save Anne’s diary of their life in hiding after the family was arrested in 1944. She kept the diary, one of the most famous records of the Holocaust, in a safe until after the war. She later gave it to Anne’s father Otto, the only survivor, who published it in 1947.
Mrs. Gies died in a nursing home from a brief illness after suffering a fall just before Christmas
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