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On 4 August 1944, Auguste van Pels and the other people in hiding were arrested in a raid by the SD in the Secret Annex. Helpers Johannes Kleiman and Victor Kugler were also arrested. Event
- Miep Gies
Miep Gies was one of the helpers of the people hiding in the...
- Landing with Bookcase
The warehouse workers started earlier than the helpers in...
- Prinsengracht 263
The day after the arrest of the people in hiding, Miep Gies...
- Miep Gies
The person most noted in Anne's diary is Miep Gies, who often brought the people in the annex small gifts and surprises even though extra food was very hard to come by at that time.
Jan 11, 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 Vienna (Austria) as Hermine Santrouschitz.
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Few books have made as large an impact as Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl, a poignant and heartbreaking account of her experience during the Holocaust. But prior to her two years of hiding and, eventually, living in a concentration camp, Anne lived with her family in Germany.
But while space was scarce and tensions sometimes rose, Anne found solace in her red and white diary, which shed received on her 13th birthdayjust weeks before her family went into hiding. She addressed many of her entries to Kitty Franckena plucky character from one of her favorite book seriesto whom she hoped to \\"confide everything.\\" These fake...
\\"...I can always write for myself,\\" she wrote in one entry. \\"But I want to achieve more than that...I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people...I want to go on living even after my death!\\"
After Annes 1945 death at Bergen-Belsen, her fatherthe sole survivor of the Frank familyreceived her recovered diary, and published it. Thus, in death Anne achieved her dreams of sharing her story with the world.
Today, Anne Frank remains one of the most famous Holocaust victims, an enduring symbol of resilience and hope, and the author of one of the most widely read books of all time. But her legacy lives on not just in her diaries, but also in the Anne Frank Housea non-profit organization dedicated to spreading and preserving her message. Their book Anne ...
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The reading material consisted of books brought to the Secret Annex by the people in hiding and books provided by the helpers. Johannes Kleiman brought books belonging to him and his daughter. [1] Jan Gies regularly took books from the C.O.M.O. reading library of his friend and former colleague Jacob Licht.
May 16, 2023 · The book also provides important insights into Johan Voskuijl, Bep’s father and Joop Van Wijk-Voskuijl’s grandfather. Johan Voskuijl, who built the bookcase which concealed the Secret Annex, was a person of moral strength and genuine integrity.
The warehouse workers started earlier than the helpers in the offices. They did not know that there were people hiding in the Secret Annex and were not supposed to find out.
