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 ...

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 ...

A Small Light is based on the true story of Miep Gies, and showrunner Joan Rater talked shedding light on the woman known from Anne Frank's diary. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

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 ...

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — Miep Gies, the office secretary who defied the Nazi occupiers to hide Anne Frank and her family for two years and saved the teenager’s diary, has died, the Anne Frank Museum ...

Miep Gies, who played a pivotal role in introducing to the world the poignant diary of the young Anne Frank and in relating the Frank family’s failed attempt to hide from the Nazis, has died. She was ...

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, ...

Going underground or into hiding has become as routine as the proverbial pipe and slippers that used to await the man of the house after a long day at work." So wrote 14-year-old Anne Frank in her ...

Miep Gies, who helped Anne Frank and her family avoid capture by the Nazis for more than two years and safeguarded the young Holocaust victim's famous diary for posterity, has died at age 100. A ...

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 ...