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Jan 11, 2010 · In early June, Otto showed up on Jan and Miep’s doorstep. ‘You can stay with us for as long as you wish,’ Miep told him. In the end, Otto would stay with Jan and Miep for more than seven years. When it became clear in mid-July 1945 that Anne had died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Miep handed the diary papers to Otto.
- The Main Characters
Edith Frank Margot Frank Otto Frank Anne Frank Peter van...
- Jan Gies
Miep’s companion. Jan and Miep grieved when Otto Frank was...
- Reconstruction
Miep Gies, Anne Frank Magazine (1998) Karl Silberbauer is in...
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Apr 27, 2023 · Miep Gies was a recently married young office worker living in Amsterdam in 1942. As German occupiers tightened their grip on the city, Gies’s boss, Otto Frank, asked her to hide him and his ...
Miep Gies is mainly known as the woman who saved Anne Frank's diary. She is one of the best-known helpers from World War II. She received countless letters from all over the world, with questions about Anne Frank and the period in hiding in the Secret Annex. These are the most frequently asked questions in an interview from 1992. Door Menno ...
- What Is “A Small Light” Based on?
- Who Was Miep Gies?
- How Did Gies Help The Residents of The Secret Annex?
- What Happened to Gies After World War II?
The series’ creators, husband-and-wife duo Tony Phelan and Joan Rater, started working on the project six years ago after a visit to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. Working with a local researcher, the couple set out to examine Gies’ life beyond her 1987 autobiography, Anne Frank Remembered, and a 1995 documentary of the same name. They discover...
Born into an impoverished Catholic family in Vienna in 1909, Gies was originally named Hermine Santrouschitz. As a child, she was severely malnourished due to lack of money and food shortages associated with World War I. Hoping to secure a better life for their daughter, Gies’ parents sent her abroad to the Netherlands as part of a programfor child...
On July 5, Margot received orders to report to a forced labor camp, prompting Otto to accelerate the plan to go into hiding in Otto’s office building at Prinsengracht 263. Tucked behind a door that was later covered by a bookcase, the hiding placeconsisted of two small bedrooms, a common space that doubled as a kitchen during the day and a bedroom ...
The months that followed the arrest brought fuel and food shortages, resulting in a famine known as the Hunger Winter. But the end of the war was on the horizon, and the Allies liberated Amsterdam in May 1945. Jan started working at an aid center for those returning from concentration camps, keeping an ear out for news of their friends. But he hear...
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Otto Frank (father of Anne Frank) and Miep Gies, Achterhuis, Anne Frankhuis, Amsterdam, 9 May 1958. Miep and her husband Jan Gies at the book presentation of Miep Gies: Herinneringen aan Anne Frank (the Dutch version of the book Anne Frank remembered : the story of the woman who helped to hide the Frank family, 1987) in Anne Frankhuis near the moveable bookcase covering the stair to the secret ...
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May 1, 2023 · A new series on Disney+ and Hulu tells the story of Miep Gies, a secretary who helped Anne Frank and others hide in Amsterdam during World War II. In “A Small Light,” Miep Gies (Bel Powley ...
Apr 3, 2014 · Miep found Anne Frank's diaries and put them away for the family's return. But only Otto Frank returned. When they learned that the rest of the family had perished in the camps, she gave him the ...
