Yesterday, one the last surviving people who had hidden Anne Frank, Miep Gies, passed away in Amsterdam. You can read about it in a New York Times article found here. Miep Gies not only hid Anne Frank in her house, but also hid the pages of her diary, giving them to her father when he returned after the war. What's fascinating is that despite risking her life to save Jews, she still did not consider herself to be a hero;
'“I am not a hero,” Mrs. Gies wrote in her memoir... “I stand at the end of the long, long line of good Dutch people who did what I did and more — much more — during those dark and terrible times years ago, but always like yesterday in the heart of those of us who bear witness.”'
This article ties in very well with what the students in my Jewish Philosophy classes have been discussing about righteous Gentiles and why people would risk their lives to save others, despite their religion (as seen in the movie: Hiding and Seeking).
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