Anne Frank guardian celebrates turning 100
Miep Gies, who looked after Anne Frank and her family as they hid from the Nazis in Amsterdam during World War Two, has turned 100 years old.
She celebrated her milestone quietly in Friesland with her friends and family.
Mrs Gies talked about the day Nazis broke into the Franks' hiding place in Amsterdam, tipped off by a still unknown collaborator, and marched the Franks out of the building along the Princengracht and off to a miserable, lonely death in the Nazi termination camps.
Miep Gies risked her life looking after the Franks but said: "I stand at the end of a long line of brave Dutch people who did much more than I did to save lives during the dark terrible years of the occupation of the Netherlands by the Germans. For them, the events of those terrible years remain alive like something that happened yesterday. For me, I think of what happened to the Franks every day."
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She celebrated her milestone quietly in Friesland with her friends and family.
Mrs Gies talked about the day Nazis broke into the Franks' hiding place in Amsterdam, tipped off by a still unknown collaborator, and marched the Franks out of the building along the Princengracht and off to a miserable, lonely death in the Nazi termination camps.
Miep Gies risked her life looking after the Franks but said: "I stand at the end of a long line of brave Dutch people who did much more than I did to save lives during the dark terrible years of the occupation of the Netherlands by the Germans. For them, the events of those terrible years remain alive like something that happened yesterday. For me, I think of what happened to the Franks every day."