What is the purpose of this excerpt? To honor Miep Gies and share her history with the audience to tell an interesting story and encourage people to help others to preserve the memory of Anne Frank and advocate tolerance to promote doing the right thing and remember the Holocaust

To honor Miep Gies and share her history with the audience.

Explanation:

Anne Frank was a young teenage Jewish girl who became known for her diary that she wrote during her life in hiding with her family. The Jewish discrimination and the eventual Holocaust took a tragic turn on her and her family's life, which would become one of the largest genocide in the world's history.

In the given excerpt, the author Teri Schultz talks about the lesser-known heroine of the whole debacle, Miep Gies, who helped the Franks and supplied them with necessities as much as she can. This particular excerpt from the book also shows how Miep Gies deserves to be honored and that she also is part of the whole story. Therefore, her history must be shared with others, and how she is much a part of the story of Anne.

Thus, the correct answer is  the first option.

To honor Miep Gies and share her history with the audience.

Explanation:

The excerpt is from "Woman Who Helped Hide Anne Frank Dies at 100". It was written by the famous author Teri Schultz.

Miep Gies was the person who helped Anne Frank and her family to hide form the Nazis in the Secret Annex. Miep Gies also hide the diary of Anne in the drawer of her desk safely after he arrest.

Anne's diary was a legacy to Miep Gies. The excerpt reveals how secretly Miep Gies kept Anne's diary. But she was sad that she could not save the life of Anne.

The excerpt was mainly written to honor the work of Miep Gies. The world should know about Gies' sacrifice and what she did to save Anne and her diary. The purpose of the excerpt was to share the history of Miep Gies with the audience.