14. Miep Gies saved the diary of Anne Frank from the Germans
The story of Anne Frank and her family, and others, hiding from the Germans in an Amsterdam annex is well known, even by those who have never read her diary or watched the numerous films and documentaries on the subject. It was Miep Gies, an employee of Otto Frank, who provided the family with the necessities of life while they were in hiding, and it was Miep who saved Anne’s diary and returned it to Otto Frank after the war had ended. Had the diary been discovered by the Germans all of the people who aided the Frank family would have been revealed to the Gestapo. According to Gies she was saved from arrest by the Germans because she was from the same town – Vienna – as the officer in charge of the case.