A Woman to Know: Miep Gies

I did what any decent person would have done. — Miep Gies

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She kept Anne Frank and her family safe, for as long as she could. As a young woman in occupied Amsterdam, Miep volunteered to help her employer, Otto Frank, escape the Nazis. She and her husband, along with her parents and sister, worked together to keep the family's new hom…