Anne Frank protector, dies at 100

Miep Gies, who ensured the diary of Anne Frank did not fall into the hands of Nazis after the teen?s arrest, has died. She was 100. Gies was among a team of Dutch citizens who hid the Frank family of four and four others in a secret annex in Amsterdam, Netherlands, during World War II, according to her official Web site, which announced her death Monday. She worked as a secretary for Anne Frank?s father, Otto, in the front side of the same Prinsengracht building. The family stayed in the secret room from July 1942 until August 4, 1944, when they were arrested by Gestapo and Dutch police after being betrayed by an informant. Anne died at northern Germany?s Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945---...More