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Jan Gies ran an aid center to assist those returning, and he asked everyone whether they knew the Frank family and what had happened to them, but to no avail. Finally, on June 3, 1945, he received a definitive answer: someone told him that Otto Frank was on his way back to Amsterdam.
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May 22, 2023 · What happened to Miep Gies — whose story is told in the 2023 Disney Plus drama miniseries A Small Light — and her husband? Read on to learn more about their amazing story.
- Melissa Willets
What happened to Miep and Jan after the war? Disney+ When Otto returned after the liberation of the Netherlands in May 1945 he was taken in by Miep and Jan and stayed with them for seven...
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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...
- Meilan Solly
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?
May 1, 2023 · While the story of Anne Frank and what happened to her is well known, Gies — who died in 2010 at 100 — largely stayed out of the limelight.
The betrayal that led to the arrest of the eight people in hiding on Prinsengracht, and their subsequent deportation to various concentration camps, did not lead to the arrest of Miep and Jan Gies. When Otto Frank arrived on Miep and Jan's doorstep in the summer of 1945, he would continue to live with them until 1953.
