Miep Gies: The Woman Who Kept Anne Frank's Diary

Miep Gies, an Austrian-born Dutch citizen, risked her life to feed and shelter the Frank family for two years in Amsterdam. After their arrest, she found Anne's scattered diary pages on the floor and kept them in a drawer, unopened, for months. After the war, when she learned Anne had died at Bergen-Belsen, Miep gave the diary to Anne's father, Otto Frank — the only survivor of the eight people in hiding. Miep later said: 'I am not a hero. I only did what I had to do.' She lived to be 100 years old.