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Anne Frank's Helper
Always Remembers
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iep Gies helped Anne
Frank and her family
hide from the Nazis but
she does not consider
herself a hero.
"People sometimes call me a
hero — I don't want that," Ms.
Gies told a standing-room-only
crowd last week at the Universi-
ty of Michigan, where she re-
ceived the Raoul Wallenberg
Medal. "I myself was just an or-
dinary one. I had no choice."
The university turned people
away when the auditorium
passed its 1,220-person capacity.
People jammed the aisles and
stood in the lobby straining to
hear Ms. Gies' message.
Ms. Gies felt it was her "hu-
man duty" to help the Franks —
even though many of her friends
and neighbors believed the Jews
deserved their fate.
"If you ever decide to help peo-
ple in trouble, you need the
courage to face the opposition of
your friends and family," she
said.
Ms. Gies received a standing
ovation as U-M President James
J. Duderstadt presented her with
the Wallenberg Medal, named for
Raoul Wallenberg, a 1935 uni-
versity alumni who saved thou-
sands of Hungarian Jews by
issuing them diplomatic docu-
ments and placing them in safe
houses in Budapest.
Ms. Gies, in Amsterdam,
risked personal danger daily to
bring food and news of the out-
side world to the Franks in their
attic hiding place, the secret an-
nex, until an unknown informant
alerted the Nazis.
Now 85, Ms. Gies said she will
never forget the day the Nazis
discovered the Franks.
"Every year on the fourth of
August, I close the curtains of my
windows and do not answer the
phone," she said. "It was the day
my Jewish friends were taken
away."
After the Gestapo raid, Ms.
Gies retrieved Anne's diary of her
attic experiences. Expecting to
return it to Anne after the war,
she gave the diary to Otto Frank,
Anne's father and sole survivor
from the annex.
"Otto in turn gave it to the
world, and I think that was the
right thing to do," she said.
Ms. Gies said Mr. Frank urged
her to read the diary prior to its
publication, but she refused. "I
could not accept the reality," she
said. "It was too much for me."
After publication, Ms. Gies
said Mr. Frank insisted she read
the diary "for Anne's sake. When
I finally started to read it, all my
dear friends came back to me.
Thank you, Anne."
"It was the day my
Jewish friends were
taken away."
— Miep Gies
Anne Frank's diary inspired
people from all over the world to
visit the annex. Ms. Gies said she
was forced to re-examine her in-
tense hatred of Germans and
Austrians when a group of Ger-
mans visited the hiding place.
"I was told these German peo-
ple had been in concentration
camps themselves for opposing
Hitler," she said.
It was at that moment Ms.
Gies realized the wisdom of her
friend Otto. "We should never
lump people together...It led to
the Holocaust and it still destroys
millions of lives today," she said.
Education, Ms. Gies argued, is
the key to preventing such
tragedies.
"Children must learn from us
that many people do not get what
they deserve in life," she said.
"We should always remember the
victims of the Holocaust." ❑
Lisa Dines is a student at the
University of Michigan.
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