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Woman Who Helped Anne Frank Dies at 100

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Dec-02-20 Text Based Question

The last survivor who helped Anne Frank and her
 family hide from the Nazis has died. Miep Gies
 was 100. After the Franks were discovered and
 deported,1 it was Gies who found and preserved2
 Anne’s diary.
DEBORAH AMOS, host: Back in 1998, NPRs
 special correspondent3 Susan Stamberg visited a
 woman in Amsterdam and asked her a simple
 question.
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.
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1. Deport (verb): to officially force someone to leave a country
 2. Preserve (verb): to keep something in its original or existing state
 3. a writer or reporter
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 AMOS: That woman is Miep Gies. The diary she’s referring to is Anne Frank’s. Miep Gies helped Anne
 Frank hide with her family during World War II and saved Anne’s diary after she and her family were
 captured by the Germans. Gies died yesterday at the age of 100. Teri Schultz has this remembrance.
TERI SCHULTZ: Miep Gies said she did not like being called a hero. Yet, she risked her life many times
 over to help the Frank family during the two years they hid from the Nazis in a secret annex4 built into
 the Trading Company office in Amsterdam where she’d worked for Otto Frank almost a decade.
Providing refuge5 to Jews, she noted later, carried a punishment of at least six months in a
 concentration camp.6 Still, the Austrian-born Dutch woman, knighted by the governments of Germany
 and the Netherlands, recipient of a medal from Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum, always insisted she
 had done nothing extraordinary.
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 boldly7 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.
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.
Ms. GIES: I saw Anne’s diary scattered all over the floor. I took it with me. I hoped I could return it to
 Anne after the war. I wanted to see her smile and hear her say, Oh Miep, my diary.
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.
Mr. OTTO FRANK: When I returned and after I heard the news that my children would not come back,
 Miep gave me the diary.
SCHULTZ: Gies described that moment herself years ago in an interview with the Anne Frank Museum
 in Amsterdam.
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 4. an extension to a main building
 5. Refuge (noun): shelter or protection from danger
 6. A concentration camp is a place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of a
 targeted group, are imprisoned and are forced to provide free labor. The term is most strongly associated with the
 several hundred camps established by the Nazis in Germany and occupied Europe during WWII. The camps were
 also where the majority of the victims of the Holocaust were murdered en masse.

7. Boldly (adverb): not fearful in the face of possible or real danger
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Ms. GIES: (Foreign language spoken)
 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.
The diary of Anne Frank is a legacy Miep Gies gave not just to Otto Frank, but to the world. It’s been
 translated into some 65 languages and remains one of the best read books internationally. To the end
 of her century of life, Gies said she thought with sadness every day about the friends she had lost.
On her website she wrote it was her greatest sorrow that she and the others had been unable to save
 Anne, but she was pleased they’d been able to give the young woman two more years of life, and in
 that period Gies noted, Anne had written the diary with her message of tolerance8 and understanding.
For NPR News, I’m Teri Schultz.
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8. Tolerance (noun): a willingness to accept feelings, habits, or beliefs that are different from one's own

DMU Timestamp: November 12, 2020 20:50

Added December 02, 2020 at 6:28pm by Alicia Hughley
Title: Text Based Question

Can common people be heroes? Why do you think more people didn’t choose to take the risks that Miep Gies took to help?

Cite examples from the text and real life to support your answer.

DMU Timestamp: November 12, 2020 20:50





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