These may belong to a child, but even children have a right to privacy.
January 12th, 2010 | 
Author: Miep Gies.. Rest in Peace… Your job is done here on earth.. and we thank you for doing it…
Miep Gies, the last surviving member of the group who helped protect Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis, has died in the Netherlands aged 100.
She and other employees of Anne Frank’s father Otto supplied food to the family as they hid in a secret annex above the business premises in Amsterdam.
Anne’s diary of their life in hiding, which ended in betrayal, is one of the most famous records of the Holocaust.
It was rescued by Mrs Gies, who kept it safe until after the war.
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I didn’t know what to say. The only thing I could manage was: ‘That ought to be interesting.’”
Mrs Gies also remembers the day the Franks were taken away and how she went up into the empty annex to find the pages of the diary lying on the floor.
Removing the pages, she did not read them immediately, telling herself at the time: “These may belong to a child, but even children have a right to privacy.”
Miep Gies died in a nursing home after suffering a fall just before Christmas.
source http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8453331.stm Date 12/ jan 2010
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