Miep Gies, played by Mary Steenburgen, died on January 11, 2010 at the age of 100, the last of the friends of the Frank family who helped hide them, provided them with food and news and who found Anne Frank's diary.
With the exception of Miep and Jan Gies, and the Frank family, all of the other main characters are referred to by the pseudonyms given to them in Anne Frank's diary.
Miep and Jan Gies were designated as "Righteous Among Nations" by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum in Jerusalem for hiding the Franks and others