Simplify the following text for a Grade 10 native English-speaking person.
Original: Miep Gies stated in her autobiography , and on her own website : I stand at the end of the long , long line of good Dutch people who did what I did or more â `` much more - during those dark and terrible times years ago , but always like yesterday in the hearts of those of us who bear witness .
Simplified: ' I stand at the end of the long , long line of good Dutch people who did what I did or more â `` much more - during those dark and terrible times years ago , but always like yesterday in the hearts of those of us who bear witness .