Jan Gies

Jan Gies (18 October 1905 – 26 January 1993) was a member of the Dutch Resistance who, with his wife Miep, helped hide Anne Frank and her family from Nazi persecution during the occupation of the Netherlands.

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    I am not a hero. I just did what any decent person would have done.
    —Miep Gies (b. c. 1908)