Woman who adored Anne Frank's account asleep at 100

THE HAGUE – Miep Gies, the woman who hid the Dutch youngster Anne Frank's account from the Nazis to become one of the world's most-read books, has died afterwards a abrupt affliction at the age of 100.

The Anne Frank Architecture said that Gies, the aftermost actual abettor of Anne and the bodies who aggregate her ambuscade abode in an Amsterdam canalside house, died in the boondocks of Hoorn on January 11.

It was Gies who attentive Anne's memoirs, and presented it to the girl's father, Otto, back he alternate from the Auschwitz absorption afflicted at the end of Apple War II -- the alone one of his ancestors to survive.

In her diary, Anne Frank actual the capacity of her boyish activity ambuscade from the Nazis in Amsterdam from 1942 to 1944, back the Nazi abstruse badge apparent her and her family's ambuscade place.

Anne and her sister afterwards died at the Bergen-Belsen absorption camp.

The diary, aboriginal appear in 1947, became one of the best acclaimed accounts of Jews ambuscade from Nazi animality and has been translated into 70 languages.

Until she suffered a achievement a decade ago, Gies travelled about the world, giving lectures about the after-effects of bent and anti-Semitism, according to the Anne Frank museum.

"Anne Frank bidding a abundant ambition to alive on afterwards her death. Miep Gies saw it as her assignment to advice in authoritative this happen," it said in a statement.

Born Hermine (Miep) Santruschitz in Vienna in 1909, Gies confused to the Netherlands at age 11.

In 1933, she began alive for Otto Frank at his Opekta trading company.

At abundant accident to her own safety, she and four added cadre brought aliment and food to the Frank ancestors and added individuals ambuscade in a abstruse addendum of Opekta's appointment architecture for added than two years.

When she angry 100, Gies approved to comedy bottomward her own role.

"I'm not a hero," she said.

"It wasn't article I planned in advance, I artlessly did what I could to help."

She suffered a achievement at the age of 89 which actively afflicted her accent and writing, and affected her to stop her activities.

On her 90th birthday, she bought a abode with a garden in Hoorn in the west of the country, area she lived out the aftermost years of her life. She acclaimed her 100th altogether on February 15, aftermost year.

"Right until the end, Miep remained acutely complex with the afterthought of Anne Frank and overextension the bulletin of her story," the architecture account said.

"Everyday she accustomed belletrist from all over the apple with questions about her accord with Anne Frank and her role as a helper."

Gies accustomed abundant honours for her role, including from the Netherlands, Germany and Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust canonizing centre.

"Of advance it's nice to be appreciated. But I alone did my assignment to my adolescent man. I helped bodies in need. Anyone can do that, can't they?" Gies said.