Read the following excerpt from "Woman Who Helped Hide Anne Frank Dies at 100" by Teri Schultz.
Which answer best summarizes the central idea of the
excerpt?
TERI SCHULTZ: Miep Gies said she did not like being
called a hero. Yet, she risked her life many times over to
help the Frank family during the two years they hid from
the Nazis in a secret annex built into the Trading
Company office in Amsterdam where she'd worked for
Otto Frank almosta decade.
Providing refuge to Jews, she noted later, carried a
punishment of at least six months ina concentration
camp. Still, the Austrian-born Dutch woman, knighted by
the governments of Germany and the Netherlands,
recipient of a medal from Yad Vashem Holocaust
Museum, always insisted she had done nothing
extraordinary.
O After the war, Miep Gies received many honors for
O Miep Gies provided refuge to a Jewish family, even
O Although Miep Gies never considered herself a hero;
O Miep Gies was knighted by twO governments and
her attempts to save the Frank family.
though she could have been punished.
after the war, many other people did.
received a medal from Yad Vashem.