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| Anne Frank helper dies aged 100 | Anne Frank helper dies aged 100 |
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| Miep Gies, the last surviving member of the group who helped protect Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis, has died in the Netherlands aged 100. | Miep Gies, the last surviving member of the group who helped protect Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis, has died in the Netherlands aged 100. |
| She and other employees of Anne Frank's father Otto supplied food to the family as they hid in a secret annex above the business premises in Amsterdam. | She and other employees of Anne Frank's father Otto supplied food to the family as they hid in a secret annex above the business premises in Amsterdam. |
| Anne's diary of their life in hiding, which ended in betrayal, is one of the most famous records of the Holocaust. | Anne's diary of their life in hiding, which ended in betrayal, is one of the most famous records of the Holocaust. |
| Mrs Gies died in a nursing home after suffering a fall at Christmas. | |
| Speaking last year as she celebrated her 100th birthday, Mrs Gies played down her role, saying others had done far more to protect Jews in the Netherlands. | |
| She and her fellow employees kept Anne and the seven others supplied for two years, from 1942 to 1944. | |
| Anne Frank died in a Nazi concentration camp in 1945 | |
| When the family were found by the authorities, they were deported, and Anne died of typhus in the German concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen. | |
| It was Mrs Gies who collected up Anne's papers and locked them away, hoping that one day she would be able to give them back to the girl. | |
| In the event, she returned them to Otto Frank, who survived the war, and helped him compile them into a diary that was published in 1947. | |
| It went on to sell tens of millions of copies in dozens of languages. | |
| Mrs Gies became a kind of ambassador for the diary, travelling to talk about Anne Frank and her experiences, campaigning against Holocaust denial and refuting allegations that the diary was a forgery. | |
| For her efforts to protect the Franks and to preserve their memory, Mrs Gies won many accolades. |