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- With the aid of a few non-Jewish friends, among them Miep Gies, who smuggled in food and other supplies, the Frank family and four other Jews—Hermann and Auguste van Pels and their son, Peter, and Fritz Pfeffer—lived confined to the “secret annex.”
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5 days ago · Miep Gies, 1987. Miep Gies, who helped hide Anne Frank's family from the Nazis and later preserved her diary, 1987. (more) The Diary, which has been translated into more than 65 languages, is the most widely read diary of the Holocaust, and Anne is probably the best known of Holocaust victims.
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Apr 20, 2024 · On July 6, 1942, her family moved into their hiding place with the help of a Dutch woman named Miep Gies. Otto Frank had hired trusted employees to help him build a secret annex that spanned three stories in the Opekta Works warehouse.
6 days ago · In her closing message in Müller's biography of Anne Frank, Miep Gies expressed a similar thought, though she attempted to dispel what she felt was a growing misconception that "Anne symbolizes the six million victims of the Holocaust", writing: "Anne's life and death were her own individual fate, an individual fate that happened six million ...
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Apr 28, 2024 · Upon his return, however, Otto reconnected with his former employee, Miep Gies. Gies had helped hide the Frank family during the war, and had recovered Anne’s diary from Prinsengracht 263 after they were arrested. She had intended to return it to Anne. Since Anne Frank died at Bergen-Belsen, Gies gave the diary to Otto instead in July 1945.
4 days ago · Anne’s diary was luckily scattered to the floor, while the police roamed the Annex. Later, after their arrest, Miep Gies, one of the helpers who hid Anne Frank and her family, found the diary and took it in hopes of giving it to Anne Frank after the war. 11 Following the capture, everyone in hiding was sent to Camp Westerbork, a transit camp ...
Apr 26, 2024 · It was Miep Gies, who was friendly with Anne and did the daily shopping for the Franks, who discovered the Jewish teen-ager's famous diary after the family was arrested by the Nazis on Aug. 4,...
Apr 14, 2024 · For more than two years, Miep Gies and her husband risked their own lives to hide Otto Frank and his family — including Frank's daughter, the intelligent and optimistic Anne. Every day became a risk as they smuggled in food and news, and perhaps most importantly, provided friendship to the people concealed in the Secret Annex.