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Miep Gies, who helped Anne Frank hide, dead at 100.

Miep Gies, the secretary who helped hide Anne Frank and her family for two years has died at age 100. Gies is also responsible for having saved the teenager’s diary, which was later published by Anne’s father, the only family survivor. “The Diary of Anne Frank” was the first popular book about the Holocaust, and has been read by millions of children and adults around the world in some 65 languages. Most know that Anne Frank died at the age of 15 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945, just two weeks before the camp was liberated. What many do not know is that Anne Frank died of typhus.

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