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Examples
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"I just wore the shirts and took the punishments," recalls Gies, now 17.
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Miep Gies appeared at Temple Judea in Manhasset, Long Island in the autumn of 1988.
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The diary and many other of Anne's papers were gathered up and dumped into Gies desk drawer, unlocked.
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Gies gave him the diary, having never even read it herself.
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Gies, who died Monday in Amsterdam at the age of 100, was one of a small group of Christians who risked their lives to hide Anne Frank and her family in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam for more than two years until they were betrayed to the Gestapo.
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For two years beginning in 1942, Gies and her husband Jan Gies hid the Franks, her dentist, Fritz Pfeffer, and the Van Pels family -- eight people in all, from the Nazis in Amsterdam.
Mia Farrow: The Two Percent: Farewell and Thank you to a Hero 2010
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Nicole won numerous awards for her charity work, including, in 2009, the Diana award, for young people who have made an outstanding contribution to their communities, and the Anne Frank/Miep Gies award, which recognises courage in the face of adversity.
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Perhaps the examples of Miep Gies and Archbishop Saliège will cause Pope Benedict to reconsider and delay Pius 'beatification until after the Vatican formally recognizes the true Christian heroes of the Holocaust era, including Gies and Saliège.
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For two years beginning in 1942, Gies and her husband Jan Gies hid the Franks, her dentist, Fritz Pfeffer, and the Van Pels family -- eight people in all, from the Nazis in Amsterdam.
Mia Farrow: The Two Percent: Farewell and Thank you to a Hero 2010
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Gies, who died Monday in Amsterdam at the age of 100, was one of a small group of Christians who risked their lives to hide Anne Frank and her family in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam for more than two years until they were betrayed to the Gestapo.
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