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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 ...
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Oldest photograph of Miep Gies, ca. 1912 in Vienna On 15...
- Life as an office assistant
Portrait of Miep Gies in the mid 1930s After Miep...
- Jan Gies
Jan and Miep's son Paul was born on 30 July 1950. They...
- Friendship with the Frank family
The Gies family visiting Otto Frank in Basel (Switzerland),...
- Helping the hiders in the Secret Annex
The Star of David that all Jews had to wear. This one...
- After the betrayal and after the war
In 1949, the now forty-year old Miep turned out to be...
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- Did Miep Gies Work For Otto Frank, Anne's Father?
- What Was Otto Frank's Business?
- Did Miep Gies Have A Gay Brother?
- Had Miep and Jan Gies Been Recently Married?
- Was Miep Gies A Short Woman?
- Did Otto Frank Ask Miep Gies to Help Hide His Family?
- Did The Frank Family Hide in An Annex Behind Otto Frank's Business?
- How Many People Did Miep Gies Help Hide in The Annex?
- Was Jan Gies Part of The Dutch Resistance?
- Is Miep Gies' Friend Tess Based on A Real person?
Yes. For six years, Miep Gies had worked as a typist in an embroidery and pleating workshop before losing her job when the crisis hit. Struggling to find work, an upstairs neighbor told her about another opportunity. The female neighbor worked as a representative for a business owned by a man named Otto Frank. At the time, Otto was still setting up...
The A Small Light fact-check reveals that according to the United States Holocaust Museum, Otto Frank's company, Opekta, "manufactured products used for making jellies and jams." After becoming proficient in the jam-making process, Miep Gies was promoted to customer service, where she took phone calls and responded to questions by mail (AnneFrank.o...
A Small Lightasserts that Miep Gies had a gay brother, Casmir 'Cas' Nieuwenburg, who was unrelated to her by blood. In the series, he is a son of her foster parents in Amsterdam. When she is unable to find a job, due to both laziness and a lack of employment options, her foster parents suggest that she marry her brother, Cas (Laurie Kynaston). Both...
Yes. Like in the A Small Light miniseries, the true story reveals that Miep and Jan had met at her first job and the two became romantically involved. There is some truth to the marriage starting off as a matter of convenience. Due to the fact that Miep had refused to join the Nazi women's association, her passport was invalidated and she had 90 da...
Yes. Gies stood at just 4 feet 11 inches. British actress Bel Powley, who portrays Gies in the series, is approximately 3 inches taller at 5 foot 2.
Yes. One day, Otto phoned Miep and informed her of the family's plans to go into hiding, asking her if she'd be willing to help them. The A Small Lightfact-check confirms that Miep Gies said yes without hesitation. Otto asked three other employees at the office if they'd be willing to help as well, including Victor Kugler, Johannes Kleiman, and Bep...
Yes. Like in the National Geographic A Small Lightminiseries, the secret annex was hidden behind a revolving bookcase in Otto Frank's shop, located at Prinsengracht 263 in Amsterdam. For more than two years, the Frank family lived in the annex. Miep Gies recalled being with the Frank family in the secret annex the day they went into hiding.
The A Small Lighttrue story reveals that Miep and her devoted husband Jan helped to hide not just the four members of the Frank family in the secret annex, but also their friends, the van Pels (including Hermann, his wife Auguste, and their 15-year-old son Peter van Pels), and Dr. Fritz Pfeffer, a local dentist. The van Pels arrived a week after th...
Yes. In Miep Gies' memoir, she talks about Jan's job in the Resistance, stating that he would visit people who had gone into hiding after they refused to go as forced laborers to Germany. He would assess the needs of these "illegal people" and then secure various supplies for them, including ration cards and money. Jan had the perfect cover for suc...
No. Miep Gies' best friend Tess (Eleanor Tomlinson) in the series is not based on a real-life individual. The character was instead inspired by all the people who harbored prejudice and turned a blind eye to what was going on as they attempted to continue living their lives in much the same way as they'd done prior to the German occupation.
May 12, 2023 · L to R: Miep Gies, Jan Gies and Otto Frank in 1961 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. Otto stayed with the Gieses for some seven years, witnessing the birth of their son Paul in 1950. He ...
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Jan 11, 2010 · Married to: Jan Gies, 16 July 1941. Child: Paul Gies (1950) Died: 11 January 2010. Miep Gies was one of the helpers of the people hiding in the Secret Annex. After the arrest, she kept Anne's writings in a drawer of her desk. In 2010 she died, one hundred years old. This is her remarkable life story. Miep Gies was born on 15 February 1909 in ...
Hermine " Miep " Gies ( Dutch: [mip ˈxis]; [a] née Santrouschitz; 15 February 1909 [1] – 11 January 2010) was one of the Dutch citizens who hid Anne Frank, her family ( Otto Frank, Margot Frank, Edith Frank) and four other Dutch Jews ( Fritz Pfeffer, Hermann van Pels, Auguste van Pels, Peter van Pels) from the Nazis in an annex above Otto ...
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Apr 30, 2023 · Otto Frank and Jan Gies look on as Miep Gies holds baby Paul, born in 1950. (Public domain) Miep and Jan did not speak in the language of “feelings,” said Gold.
