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Jan 26, 1993 · Unlike Miep, Jan would always stay in the background when it came to Anne and the Secret Annex. He usually accompanied Miep when she was interviewed or told her story. He would jokingly refer to himself as the ‘prince consort’. Jan Gies died on 26 January 1993, 87 years old.
May 6, 2023 · In 1993 Jan died at the age of 87 of kidney failure. In a statement, the Anne Frank Foundation said: "Jan was not a person to stand in the limelight, not even amid all the publicity surrounding Anne Frank. "He was throughout his lifetime a man of few words, but many deeds."
Jan Gies, the man who helped hide Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis in the Amsterdam “secret annex,” died Tuesday at the age of 87.
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May 2, 2023 · Miep Gies passed away in 2010 at 100 years old. In the eighties, she and today’s guest, Alison Leslie Gold, wrote a book called Anne Frank Remembered. It’s an account of how Miep helped the ...
His second wife, Elfriede, filled out Pages of Testimony in memory of Anne Frank, her sister and mother. On March 8, 1972, Yad Vashem recognized Jan Augustus Gies and his wife, Hermine (Miep) Gies-Santrouschitz, as Righteous Among the Nations. "Our Helpers" in the Secret Annex"The best example of this is our own helpers, who have managed to ...
Finally, on June 3, 1945, he received a definitive answer: someone told him that Otto Frank was on his way back to Amsterdam. That same day Mr. Frank rang the bell of Jan and Miep's home. ‘We looked at each other. There were no words. He was thin, but he’d always been thin. He carried a little bundle. My eyes swam. My heart melted.
