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Jan 26, 1993 · Jan Gies was Miep’s husband. Although he was not employed at Otto Frank's company, he was involved as a member of the Supervisory Board and was one of the helpers of the people in hiding. He could often be found in the Secret Annex and provided books and distribution coupons.
With her husband Jan and other Opekta employees (Victor Kugler, Johannes Kleiman and Bep Voskuijl), Miep Gies helped hide Otto and Edith Frank; their daughters Margot and Anne; Hermann, Auguste and Peter van Pels; and Fritz Pfeffer in several upstairs rooms in the company's office building on Amsterdam's Prinsengracht from 6 July 1942 to 4 ...
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.
May 22, 2023 · The late Miep Gies's given name was Hermine Santrouschitz and as historians have recounted, she would go on to work for Otto Frank, Anne's father, in the Netherlands. Miep later married Jan Gies and famously helped the Frank family go into hiding during World War II.
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Apr 3, 2014 · She and Jan Gies married on July 16, 1941, with Otto Frank and his family, including his daughter Anne, in attendance. Hiding the Franks. In June 1942, considering the worsening situation...
May 12, 2023 · Who was Miep Gies? Born into an impoverished Catholic family in Vienna in 1909, Gies was originally named Hermine Santrouschitz.
Apr 12, 2011 · Gies, along with her husband Jan, a Dutch social worker, and several of Otto Frank’s other employees risked their own lives to smuggle food, supplies and news of the outside world into the...
