Miep Gies who hid Anne Frank dies

Miep Gies, the secretary who defied Nazi occupiers to hide Anne Frank and her family for two years and saved the teenager's diary, has died. She was 100.
She is the last of a handful of non-jews who supplied food, books and good cheer to the secret annex behind Otto Frank's spice warehouse where Anne, her parents, sister and four other Jews hid for 25 months during World War 11.
After German police raided the apartment, Gies gathered up Anne's papers and locked them away for her return after the war. Anne's diary, a 13th birthday gift, recounts her life in hiding from June 13, 1942 to August 1, 1944.
Anne died of typhus at 15 in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March of 1945. So Gies gave the diary to Anne's dad, the only family survivor who published it in 1947.
Gies tirelessly promoted tolerance, including in her own memoir, Anne Frank Remembered. She brushed aside accolades for hiding the Franks and other Jews as more than she deserved. "So many others have done the same or even far more dangerous work", she wrote in an e-mail days before her 100th birthday last February.
What a wonderful woman!