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- Gies was born in Vienna to Mathias and Karolina Santruschitz on 15 February 1909. Due to her family's dire financial situation, she had to be sent to Leiden from Vienna to escape the food shortage in Austria after the First World War in December 1920. By 1922, she had moved to the Netherlands where she lived with a foster family in Amsterdam.
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She died in 2010 at age 100. Early life. Born in Vienna, Austria on 15 February 1909 to Karoline Maria Santrouschitz, [10][11] She was sent to Leiden from Vienna in December 1920 to escape the food shortages prevailing in Austria after World War I.
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Jan 11, 2010 · Miep Gies was born on 15 February 1909 in Vienna (Austria) as Hermine Santrouschitz. The Santrouschitz family was Catholic and not well-off. Because there was not a lot of food available after the First World War, Miep even became malnourished.
Miep Gies was a Catholic woman who protected several Jews, including Anne Frank and her family, from the Nazis during World War II. She was born Hermine Santrouschitz in Vienna, Austria, to an extremely poor family.
Jun 2, 2024 · Born in Austria in 1909, Miep Gies was sent to live with a Dutch family in Leiden in 1920 and lived in the Netherlands until her death at age 100 in 2010. Miep Gies hid the Frank family for years, helped them survive, and even saved Anne Frank's diary from falling into Nazi hands.
Miep Gies is mainly known as the woman who saved Anne Frank's diary. She is one of the best-known helpers from World War II. She received countless letters from all over the world, with questions about Anne Frank and the period in hiding in the Secret Annex.
Jan 25, 2010 · From 1942 to ’44, Gies, who died Jan. 11 at 100, helped shelter and feed Anne Frank and her family in an attic in Amsterdam, where at that time Jews were being branded, humiliated and condemned...
Between July 1942 and August 1944 Gies was one of a group of 5 people who provided aid and sustenance on a daily basis to 8 Jews in hiding in the top two floors of a secret annex of an Amsterdam office building, as memorialised in the writings of the youthful diarist, Anne Frank.
