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During that period, Jan and Miep’s son Paul was born. Unlike Miep, Jan would always stay in the background when it came to Anne and the Secret Annex. He usually accompanied Miep when she was interviewed or told her story. He would jokingly refer to himself as the ‘prince consort’. Jan Gies died on 26 January 1993, 87 years old.
Did Miep Gies have any children? Yes. Miep and Jan Gies had a son named Paul, who was born in 1950, half a decade after the war ended. How much research did Bel Powley do to prepare for her role as Miep Gies? Powley said that prior to filming, she traveled to Amsterdam and took a private tour of the actual annex where the Frank family hid.
Jan and Miep's son Paul was born on 30 July 1950. They continued to live in Amsterdam until Jan passed away in 1993. After that Miep moved to the same town in North Holland where her son Paul lives. Otto Frank, Miep and Jan Gies with son Paul, January 1951, Amsterdam All quotes in this chapter are taken from the book Anne Frank Remembered. The ...
Miep Gies with son Paul, Otto Frank and Jan, January 1951, in Amsterdam After having lived with Miep and Jan for seven years, in the fall of 1952 Otto Frank emigrated to Switzerland, in order to be close to his mother. In November 1953 he remarried, with a woman who had also lost most of her loved ones in the concentration camps.
L to R: Miep Gies, Jan Gies and Otto Frank in 1961 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. Otto stayed with the Gieses for some seven years, witnessing the birth of their son Paul in 1950. He ...
Miep gave birth to her and Jan's son, Paul, in 1952. Although Anne's diaries had been published in 1947, Miep had never read them, but Otto finally persuaded her to do so in their second printing.
