Read the following excerpt from "Woman Who Helped Hide Anne Frank Dies at 100" by Teri Schultz.Ms. MIEP GIES: I, myself, I'm just a very common person. I simply had no choice. I could foresee many, many sleepless nights and a life filled with regret if I would have refused to help the Franks. And this was not the kind of life I was looking for at all. SCHULTZ: Gies explained another motivation for emphasizing her modesty. She said if people are allowed to think it takes remarkable qualities to act boldly on behalf of others, few will attempt it. Ms. GIES: People should never think that you have to be a very special person to help those who need you.
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Read the following excerpt from "Woman Who Helped Hide Anne Frank Dies at 100" by Teri Schultz.SUSAN STAMBERG: How do you say diary in Dutch? Ms. MIEP GIES: Dagboek. STAMBERG: Dagboek? Oh, daybook. Ms. GIES: Yes. Daybook. STAMBERG: Dag? Ms. GIES: Yes. STAMBERG: Boek. Ms. GIES: Boek. STAMBERG: Is diary.
Read the following excerpt from "Woman Who Helped Hide Anne Frank Dies at 100" by Teri Schultz.Ms. MIEP GIES: I, myself, I'm just a very common person. I simply had no choice. I could foresee many, many sleepless nights and a life filled with regret if I would have refused to help the Franks. And this was not the kind of life I was looking for at all.
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Read the following excerpt from "Woman Who Helped Hide Anne Frank Dies at 100" by Teri Schultz.SCHULTZ: That day would never come, as Anne did not survive the Nazi death camps. But Otto Frank did.
Read the following excerpt from "Woman Who Helped Hide Anne Frank Dies at 100" by Teri Schultz.SCHULTZ: But Gies clearly was very special, even when someone still unknown betrayed those she called the hiders and they were taken away at gunpoint to death camps. Gies was not intimidated. She sneaked back into the secret hideaway to try to preserve any belongings of the Franks that hadn't been destroyed or taken. And there she found what would eventually become a treasure of the entire world.
Read the following excerpt from "Woman Who Helped Hide Anne Frank Dies at 100" by Teri Schultz.SCHULTZ: Gies said she took the diary out of the desk where she'd saved it and she handed it to Otto Frank with the words: this is the legacy of your daughter Anne. She had never read a word of it, and in fact, could not bring herself to do so until after Otto Frank published the diary in 1947, two years after Anne's death.
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Read the following excerpt from "Woman Who Helped Hide Anne Frank Dies at 100" by Teri Schultz.SCHULTZ: That day would never come, as Anne did not survive the Nazi death camps. But Otto Frank did. And he made his way back to Amsterdam in 1945 returning to stay with Gies and her husband. On the very sad day that year that he learned both his daughters had died in a camp, Otto Frank later explained in a documentary, Gies delivered him what he called a miracle.
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