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Jan Gies witnessed the arrest Amsterdam Aug. 4, 1944 After Jan Gies heard that the SD was at Opekta, he and Johannes Kleiman's brother tried to see what was happening from across the canal. They saw the people in hiding and the helpers put into a van for detainees and driven away. Event. Imprisoned in Detention Centre I (Weteringschans)
Jan 1, 2001 · It was Miep Gies and her husband, Jan, who hid Otto Frank, and his wife and daughters, as well as another family. This firsthand account of everything Miep, Jan, and Otto's coworkers endured during the two years they hid eight Jewish individuals from the Nazi party, and what happened after Otto Frank and his family were arrested and taken to ...
Jun 29, 2021 · By Amy Beeman / June 29, 2021 12:39 pm EST. The woman who saved Anne Frank's diary was also the woman who tried to save Anne Frank herself, along with Anne's mother, father and sister, plus four other Dutch Jews hiding from German persecution during World War II. Her name was Miep Gies. Miep was born in Vienna, Austria in 1909 to Catholic parents.
Good fortune is like a red thread running throughout my mother's life', remarked Paul Gies, son of Miep and Jan Gies. That remark seems justified, considering how this small, ailing girl, born in Vienna in 1909 and undernourished during the First World War, is now, in 2008, in reasonably good health, still living independently with some ...
May 21, 2024 · Jan Gies, a member of the Dutch resistance who smuggled food to Anne Frank and her family during the Nazi occupation, died Tuesday, the Amsterdam-based Anne Frank Foundation said Wednesday. He was 87.
Jun 9, 2023 · Bep (at far right) in Noordwijk with Jan Gies and Miep Gies, c. 1975. Photo: Courtesy of the van Wijk-Voskuijl family. ... trying to make sense of what had happened so that she could move on. But ...
Apr 17, 2023 · The limited series is about the true story of a young secretary named Miep Gies. She and her husband, Jan, decided to hide her boss Otto Frank, who was Jewish, and his family (including daughter ...
