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Jan 12, 2010 · Gies died Monday from a neck injury suffered when she fell last month, the Anne Frank House museum said. She was 100 and had been one of the few people still alive who knew Anne Frank.
Jan 12, 2010 · Miep Gies, the office secretary who defied the Nazi occupiers to hide Anne Frank and her family for two years and saved the teenager's diary, has died, the Anne Frank House museum said Tuesday....
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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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Jan 12, 2010 · Miep Gies, the Dutch woman who helped Anne Frank and her family hide from Nazis during the Second World War and saved the teenager's famous diary has died. She was 100.
Jan 11, 2010 · The woman who risked her own life by hiding Dutch Jewish teenager Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis, Miep Gies, has died. She would have been 101 years old next month. The Anne Frank...
Jan 12, 2010 · Miep Gies, who played a pivotal role in introducing to the world the poignant diary of the young Anne Frank and in relating the Frank family’s failed attempt to hide from the Nazis, has died. She...
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In 1993, Jan Gies died at home from kidney failure, aged 87. [2] He was survived by his wife, Hermine "Miep" Gies, who died at the age of 100 in 2010 and his son, Paul Gies, who was born in 1950, daughter-in-law Lucie, and three grandchildren, Erwin, Jeanine, and David.
