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Jan Augustus Gies (Dutch pronunciation: [jɑŋ ˈɣis]; 18 August 1905 – 26 January 1993) was a member of the Dutch Resistance who, with his wife, Miep, helped hide Anne Frank, her sister Margot, their parents Otto and Edith, the van Pels family, and Fritz Pfeffer from Nazi persecution during the occupation of the Netherlands by aiding them ...
Jan 26, 1993 · Return Otto Frank: back in Amsterdam. Amsterdam June 3, 1945 - July 18, 1945. On 3 June 1945, Otto Frank returned to Amsterdam to his friends Jan and Miep Gies. From there he went in search of his daughters. On 18 July, he received the news that his daughters had perished in Bergen-Belsen. Soon after, Miep Gies gave him his daughter Anne's diary.
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Jan and Miep Gies on their wedding day on July 16, 1941 Besides her office job, Miep Gies had a busy social life. She enjoyed social events and, as so many of her peers, attended dancing lessons. During the 'free style dancing' organized on Friday and Saturday evenings, she and her friends would practice what they had learnt in the preceding week.
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 ...
Miep Gies (through her marriage to Jan Gies), Auguste van Pels (through her marriage to Hermann van Pels) Johannes Kleiman, Jan Gies, Johan Voskuijl and Bep Voskuijl In 1941, 5 of them were made stateless as a result (= discrimina-tory anti-Jewish measure): 8 times through the loss of nationality due to legal provisions: All of the people from
Good fortune is like a red thread running throughout my mother's life', remarked Paul Gies, son of Miep and Jan Gies. That remark seems justified, considering how this small, ailing girl, born in Vienna in 1909 and undernourished during the First World War, is now, in 2008, in reasonably good health, still living independently with some ...
Jan Gies, the husband of helper Miep, came by to have lunch with the people in hiding, as he often did. Miep warned him about the presence of the police officers and Jan immediately left and went back to his place of work. There he reflected: what could he do?
