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Apr 26, 2023 · Miep Gies' husband, Jan, and Bep Voskuijl's father, Johan, were also instrumental in helping. Partially as a result of his contacts at the municipality, Jan was able to secure ration cards. Johan built the swiveling bookcase that concealed the entrance to the secret annex.
Jan 11, 2010 · Miep had met Jan Gies in her first job. The two got romantically involved and on 16 July 1941, in the second year of war, the couple married. At that point, Jan was working as a social worker with Social Services of the municipality of Amsterdam.
May 6, 2023 · The showrunners gave Miep and Jan (Joe Cole) a slightly more colourful meet-cute involving him fumbling their connection at a bar before the two finally developed a spark when she went to collect...
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- Janet A Leigh
Apr 27, 2023 · Twenty-two years before the Franks went into hiding, Miep’s desperate parents had sent her, at age 11, starving and ill, from their home in Vienna to a foster family in Leiden, Netherlands.
May 1, 2023 · Miep and Jan Gies, years later, stand by the bookcase that hid a secret entrance to the hiding place of Anne Frank, her family and four others in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam
- Sheila Flynn
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.
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His second wife, Elfriede, filled out Pages of Testimony in memory of Anne Frank, her sister and mother. On March 8, 1972, Yad Vashem recognized Jan Augustus Gies and his wife, Hermine (Miep) Gies-Santrouschitz, as Righteous Among the Nations.
