Shortly before her death, Miep Gies said: “Never a day goes by that I do not think of what happened then.” On August 4, 1944, Austrian-born SS Staff Sergeant Karl Josef Silberbauer and three Dutch ...

Miep Gies, who has died aged 100, wrote towards the end of her life: "I am not a hero. I stand at the end of the long, long line of good Dutch people who did what I did – and much more." She was, ...

Dutch Holocaust rescuer Miep Gies is best known for hiding Anne Frank, but Gies also battled Amsterdam’s German occupiers in ways that never made it into “The Diary of a Young Girl.” Beginning on May ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In the first half of 1929, two baby girls were born to Jewish families ...

In a new eight-episode limited series, Bel Powley plays Miep Gies, the Dutch woman who risked everything to keep the Frank family and several others alive during World War II To mark the start of ...

The question Roman Catholics throughout the world should be asking themselves this week is why there hasn’t been more talk about someday making Miep Gies a saint. Gies, who died Monday in Amsterdam at ...

(AP) — Without Miep Gies, the story of Anne Frank might never have been known. The former office secretary who helped hide the Jewish teenager from the Nazis for two years gathered up the scattered ...

The greatest heroism often resides in the actions of ordinary people in extraordinary situations and times, and so it is with “A Small Light,” which tells the story of Anne Frank through the eyes of ...

I have written several blogs about ordinary persons who accomplished extraordinary feats of bravery and defiance during WWII. For the most part, their brave and dangerous deeds were performed ...

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Miep Gies, who died on January 11 aged 100, was one of a Dutch couple who hid and sustained the family of Anne Frank for more than two years in an Amsterdam attic; later she helped to save Anne ...