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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 ...
Miep Gies Biography. preserved Anne Frank's diary. Born: Feb. 15, 1909. Died: Jan. 11, 2010 ( Noord-Holland, Netherlands) Best Known as: woman who hid Anne Frank and her family. Miep Gies often claimed she was not a hero, but most people challenge her modesty. Gies, along with her husband, Jan, a member of the Dutch resistance during World War ...
Jan 1, 2001 · Miep Gies was the one who helped sustain the Franks in their hiding place, and who later, after the Germans found out about the "Secret Annex" and raided it, scooped up Anne's diary and notes, to save them for posterity. This is her story. And some story it is.
May 6, 2024 · Miep Gies, who helped hide Anne Frank's family from the Nazis and later preserved her diary, 1987. (more) The Diary , which has been translated into more than 65 languages, is the most widely read diary of the Holocaust , and Anne is probably the best known of Holocaust victims.
Video. Miep and Jan Gies at home in Amsterdam, 1986-1988. The hiders stayed in the rear annex of the premises of the office on Prinsengracht in Amsterdam from July 6, 1942 until August 4, 1944. The Frank family arrived there on July 6, the Van Pels family came one week later and Fritz Pfeffer on November 16 of that year.
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 ...
Miep Gies (then still named Hermine Santruschitz) came to the Netherlands as an eleven-year old to recuperate with a foster family in Leiden, following the food shortage experienced in Vienna during the First World War. At a physician's recommendation, her first stay of three months was prolonged by another three months.
