MIEP GIES, 100

Hid Anne Frank

Miep Gies, who helped hide Anne Frank and her family and saved the girl's diary after their arrest, died Monday after a short illness.

Miep Gies was born Hermine Santrouschitz in Vienna on Feb. 15, 1909, and grew up in the Netherlands. In 1933, she took an office job in Amsterdam with Otto Frank, who had left Germany because of Hitler's anti-Jewish policies. His family, including his daughter, Anne, soon followed him there.

In the spring of 1942, when the Franks went into hiding, Ms. Gies and her husband provided food and other supplies to the family. Two years later, after the family was betrayed and arrested, she found Anne's diary on the floor. She kept it until the war ended and gave it and other papers to Otto Frank.