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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 ...
Miep Gies Biography. preserved Anne Frank's diary. Born: Feb. 15, 1909. Died: Jan. 11, 2010 ( Noord-Holland, Netherlands) Best Known as: woman who hid Anne Frank and her family. Miep Gies often claimed she was not a hero, but most people challenge her modesty. Gies, along with her husband, Jan, a member of the Dutch resistance during World War ...
A Small Light: Created by Tony Phelan, Joan Rater. With Bel Powley, Joe Cole, Amira Casar, Billie Boullet. Follows the remarkable story of Miep Gies, a Dutch woman who risked her life to shelter Anne Frank's family from the Nazis for more than two years during World War II.
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Miep Gies (then still named Hermine Santruschitz) came to the Netherlands as an eleven-year old to recuperate with a foster family in Leiden, following the food shortage experienced in Vienna during the First World War. At a physician's recommendation, her first stay of three months was prolonged by another three months.
Miep Gies, my story. 'I was born in Vienna as Hermine Santruschitz (spelt later in the Netherlands as Santrouschitz), on February 15, 1909. My parents did not have the means to take proper care of me, so that was an unfortunate start. The lack of food as a result of the First World War meant that I became undernourished and was often ill.
Miep Gies em 1987. Hermine " Miep " Gies ( Viena, 15 de fevereiro de 1909 – Hoorn, 11 de janeiro de 2010 ), mais conhecida por Miep Gies, foi uma secretária e contadora austríaca, radicada nos Países Baixos. [ 1] Ela ganhou atenção mundial por ter ajudado a família de Anne Frank ( Otto Frank, Margot Frank, Edith Frank-Holländer) e ...
The arrest. Seated at her former desk in the current Anne Frank house, Miep Gies describes the fourth of August, 1944: the fearful day on which the eight hiders and two of their helpers were arrested. Miep's Viennese origins saved her from being arrested. From the program Herinneringen aan Anne Frank > Wouter van der Sluis voor de Anne Frank ...
