Miep Gies died this past Monday.  She was 100 years old.  She is one of the non jews who helped Anne Frank's family to hide in Amsterdam during WWII.  She is the person who saved Anne's papers and gave them to his father after the war.  People often wanted to portray her as a hero and the following quote shows that while she may not have considered herself to be a hero, I feel she is definitely someone to hold up as a role model.  The world is certainly a better place when ordinary people do their human duty.
   
"Imagine young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero? I was not. I was just an ordinary housewife and secretary."  ---Miep Gies