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Diary
From the exhibition "Anne Frank, a History for Today" at the Westerbork Remembrance Centre in Hooghalen, northeast Netherlands.
AP Photo / Bas Czerwinski

Miep Gies, the woman who helped hide Anne Frank from the Nazis and later saved Anne's diary, died this week in Amsterdam. She was 100 years old. Midday features a remembrance of Gies, plus an excerpt from an interview with Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel.

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Diary
From the exhibition "Anne Frank, a History for Today" at the Westerbork Remembrance Centre in Hooghalen, northeast Netherlands.
AP Photo / Bas Czerwinski