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Hermine "Miep" Gies (Dutch: [mip ˈxis]; née Santrouschitz; 15 February 1909 – 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 Frank's ...
11 Jan 2010 · Miep Gies was an employee of Otto Frank and one of the helpers of the people in hiding in the Secret Annex. Read her biography here.
Miep Gies is mainly known as the woman who saved Anne Frank's diary. She is one of the best-known helpers from World War II. She received countless letters from all over the world, with questions about Anne Frank and the period in hiding in the Secret Annex.
12 Mei 2023 · Soon after the SS arrested Anne Frank on August 4, 1944, Miep Gies —one of the helpers who’d hidden the young girl from the Nazis for the past two years—snuck back into her room to...
When the eight hiders were finally arrested and taken away on August 4, 1944, along with their two helpers Kugler and Kleiman, Miep Gies was the only person that could keep the business running. She and Bep Voskuijl had not been arrested, and the office had not been cleared out by the Germans. They had also left the spice mills in the basement.
27 Apr 2023 · Miep Gies was a recently married young office worker living in Amsterdam in 1942. As German occupiers tightened their grip on the city, Gies’s boss, Otto Frank, asked her to hide him and...
Although Miep Gies has always been very modest about it, it is not sure whether all of this could have come to pass without the decisive actions of her and Bep Voskuijl. Below you will find a biographical account of the life of Miep Gies.
