Hero. No question about it.

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.

[…]

“More than 20,000 Dutch people helped to hide Jews and
others in need of hiding during those years. I willingly did what I
could to help. My husband did as well. It was not enough,” she says in
the prologue of her memoirs, “Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family.”

“There
is nothing special about me. I have never wanted special attention. I
was only willing to do what was asked of me and what seemed necessary
at the time.” —CNN