80-year-old Dutch woman Miep Gies at the beginning of the appeal hearing against the neo-Nazi...

In the Hamburg trial for the authenticity of Anne Frank's diaries against the neo-Nazi Edgar Geiß, the last survivor who knew Anne Frank herself testified on November 16, 1989. Between 1942 and 1944, the Dutchwoman Miep Gies provided the girl and her family with food in their hiding place in a rear building on Amsterdam's Prinsengracht. She brought account books and loose sheets of paper for her diary entries to Anne Frank, who was 13 at the time, Ms. Gies said on the third day of the appeals process. In the spring of 1979, the 60-year-old neo-Nazi Geiß was sentenced to six months' probation for defamation because he had distributed leaflets with the tenor that the diary was a fraud. In a leaflet before the start of the appeal hearing, he renewed his assertion that most of the entries had been added later.