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Jan 11, 2010 · Miep Gies was one of the helpers of the people hiding in the Secret Annex. After the arrest, she kept Anne's writings in a drawer of her desk. In 2010 she died, one hundred years old. This is her remarkable life story.
In 1949, the now forty-year old Miep turned out to be pregnant, and their son Paul was born on July 13, 1950. Life had returned to normal, there were plenty of groceries available, and everything was once again in working order. Miep Gies with son Paul, Otto Frank and Jan, January 1951, in Amsterdam
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.
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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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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....
Jan 12, 2010 · Miep Gies, who has died aged 100, wrote towards the end of her life: "I am not a hero. I stand at the end of the long, long line of good Dutch people who did what I did – and much more." She...
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Jan 12, 2010 · Miep Gies, who ensured the diary of Anne Frank did not fall into the hands of Nazis after the teen's arrest, has died. She was 100.
