Miep Gies, Protector of Anne Frank's Diary Dies

Miep Gies did not like to be called a hero, yet without her action ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’  might not exist today.  Miep Gies found it in 1944 after the Germans took the Franks into custody.  In the 1950s, as the Anne Frank diary began to win a reputation, Miep Gies was one of a wide range of people investigated on suspicion that she had betrayed the Franks to the Nazis. Otto Frank, the only member of the Frank family to survive the concentration camps, stopped the investigation with a sentence: “If you suspect Miep, you suspect me.” The full story is here.