Happy Birthday!! Rescuer of Anne Frank's diary marks 100th birthday On Sunday, the last surviving helper, Miep Gies, celebrates her 100th birthday, saying she has won more accolades for helping the Frank family than she deserved — as if, she says, she tried to save all the Jews of occupied Holland. "This is very unfair. So many others have done the same or even far more dangerous work," she wrote in an e-mail to The Associated Press this week. It was Gies who gathered up Anne's scattered papers and notebooks after the hiding place was raided in 1944. She locked them — unread — in a desk drawer to await the teenager's return.
Another link Anne Frank’s helper turns 100 - Europe, World - The Independent I was just reading this in the Independent newspaper I bought today. Miep Gies 100 today...thats what I call a good innings.
she was presented to the oscar awards audience at one time. she found the diary lying on the floor of the attic.
