![]() ![]() ![]() Later, she said if she had read them during the war she would have had to burn them because they incriminated the “helpers.” Gies said she never read Anne Frank’s diary until she gave the pages to Otto Frank, saying even a teenager’s privacy was sacred. Israeli President Shimon Peres, in a letter to Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, said Gies “won the hearts of all of us” through her efforts to save the Frank family and rescue the diary. Gies was the last of the “helpers,” the six non-Jews who smuggled food, books, writing paper and news of the outside world to the secret attic apartment in the canal-side warehouse where Anne, her parents, sister and four other Jews hid during World War II. She was 100 and had been one of the few people still alive who knew Anne Frank. 11 from a neck injury suffered when she fell last month. Miep Gies displays a copy of her book, “Anne Frank Remembered,” in 1998. ![]()
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