Miep Gies

She never considered herself a hero. Would that we could all be so heroic.

(CNN) -- Miep Gies, who ensured the diary of Anne Frank did not fall into the hands of Nazis after the teen's arrest, has died. She was 100.

(NPR) Miep Gies, the office secretary who defied the Nazi occupiers to hide Anne Frank and her family for two years and saved the teenager's diary, has died, the Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam said Tuesday. She was 100. [link to audio]

[Photo Anne Frank House/AP via NPR]