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Dutch citizen who hid Anne Frank
Feb 10, 2009 · For more than two years, Miep Gies and her husband helped hide the Franks from the Nazis. Like thousands of unsung heroes of the Holocaust, they risked their lives each day to bring food, news, and emotional support to the victims. She found the diary and brought the world a message of love and hope.
- Miep Gies, Alison Leslie Gold
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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...
The new series from National Geographic explores the life of Miep Gies, who hid Anne Frank and other Jews from the Nazis in Amsterdam. Based on Gies' memoir and original research, the show reveals her courage, compassion and legacy.
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Jan 1, 2001 · Miep Gies, Alison Leslie Gold (Contributor) 4.30. 65,310 ratings1,172 reviews. The reminiscences of Miep Gies, the woman who hid the Frank family in Amsterdam during the Second World War, presents a vivid story of life under Nazi occupation. Genres Nonfiction History Biography Holocaust Memoir World War II Classics. ...more.
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Jan 11, 2010 · Miep Gies was one of the people who helped Anne Frank and her family hide from the Nazis in Amsterdam. She kept Anne's diary after the arrest and gave it to Otto Frank, who published it in 1947.
Official website of Miep Gies (English) Miep Gies at IMDb; Profile of Miep Gies from the Anne Frank Museum; Miep Gies – her activity to save Jews' lives during the Holocaust, at Yad Vashem website; Holocaust Rescuers Bibliography with information and links to books about Miep Gies and other Dutch rescuers; Miep Gies - Daily Telegraph obituary
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It seems as if we are never far from Miep’s thoughts...Yours, Anne. From her own remarkable childhood as a World War I refugee to the moment she places a small, red-orange, checkered diary—Anne’ s legacy—in Otto Frank’s hands, Miep Gies remembers her days with simple honesty and shattering clarity.
Nov 19, 2010 · Anne Frank remembered : the story of the woman who helped to hide the Frank family. by. Gies, Miep, 1909-2010; Gold, Alison Leslie. Publication date. 1987. Topics. Gies, Miep, 1909-2010, Frank, Anne, 1929-1945, Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Publisher. New York : Simon and Schuster.
