( 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 . Gies was among a team of Dutch citizens who hid the Frank family of four and four others in a secret annex in Amsterdam , Netherlands , during World War II , according to her official Web site , which announced her death Monday . She worked as a secretary for Anne Frank 's father , Otto , in the front side of the same Prinsengracht building . The family stayed in the secret room from July 1942 until August 4 , 1944 , when they were arrested by Gestapo and Dutch police after being betrayed by an informant . Two of Gies ' team were arrested that day , but she and her friend , Bep Voskuijl , were left behind -- and found 14-year-old Anne 's papers . `` And there Bep and I saw Anne 's diary papers lying on the floor . I said , 'Pick them up ! ' Bep stood there staring , frozen . I said , 'Pick them up ! Pick them up ! ' We were afraid , but we did out best to collect all the papers , '' Gies said in a 1998 interview with The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam . `` Then we went downstairs . And there we stood , Bep and I. I asked , 'What now , Bep ? ' She answered , 'You 're the oldest . You hold on to them . So I did . '' The girl had chronicled two years of the emotions and fears that gripped her during hiding , as well as candid thoughts on her family , her feelings for friend-in-hiding Peter van Pels , and dreams of being a professional writer . Mixed into the entries were the names of the Dutch helpers , who risked their lives to keep the family 's secret . `` I did n't read Anne 's diary papers . ... It 's a good thing I did n't because if I had read them I would have had to burn them , '' she said in the 1998 interview . `` Some of the information in them was dangerous . '' The diary was sheltered in Gies ' desk drawer and later turned over to Otto Frank when he returned after the war as the only surviving resident of the annex . Anne died at northern Germany 's Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945 . Her father published her diary , titled `` The Secret Annex , '' in 1947 . Despite the legendary hardship she endured during the German occupation , Gies never embraced the label of a hero . `` 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 . '' Gies ' husband , Jan , whom she married in 1941 , died in 1993 . The couple had a son together .
Gies helped hide Anne Frank , seven others from Nazis in Amsterdam . After hiding place was raided , Gies found Anne 's diary and kept it until after the war . Gies worked as a secretary for Anne 's father , Otto , and later gave diary to him .