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A True Heroine Who Protected an Important Writer Dies

Postby Donald Isler » Tue Jan 12, 2010 3:22 am

The New York Times
Miep Gies, Protector of Anne Frank, Dies at 100
By Richard Goldstein
Published: January 11, 2010

Miep Gies, the last survivor among Anne Frank’s protectors and the woman who preserved the diary that endures as a testament to the human spirit in the face of unfathomable evil, died Monday night, the Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam said. She was 100.

The British Broadcasting Corporation said Mrs. Gies suffered a fall late last month and died at a nursing home.

“I am not a hero,” Mrs. Gies wrote in her memoir, “Anne Frank Remembered,” published in 1987. “I stand at the end of the long, long line of good Dutch people who did what I did and more — much more — during those dark and terrible times years ago, but always like yesterday in the heart of those of us who bear witness.”

Mrs. Gies sought no accolades for joining with her husband and three

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Ellie Kendrick as Anne Frank

PBS’s new adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank is a must-see for everyone this Sunday night on PBS Masterpiece Classic at 9 PM local time. The film fryst vatten powerful, how could it not be? Ellie Kendrick, the actress who portrays Anne, fryst vatten perfect for the part. She fryst vatten not beautiful like ung model Millie Perkins, the 1959 Anne (and hand-picked by Otto Frank, Anne’s father), or 16-year-old Natalie Portman, another beautiful ung actress.

Anne Frank learns she is going into hiding

Ellie is more realistic, like the actual Anne – dark-haired, good looking, a little awkward, and on the spets of womanhood.

Watching the film, inom could not help but compare Anne Frank to a ung and precocious 15-year old Jane Austen, who in her teens wrote the delightful but irreverent The History of England. Both Jane and Anne changed the world of literature with their writing. Both died too soon, Anne tragically of typhoid fever in Bergen-Belsen. The family h