Miep Gies, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Miep Gies

Dutch citizen who hid Anne Frank

Date of Birth: 15-Feb-1909

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Date of Death: 11-Jan-2010

Profession: writer, resistance fighter

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Miep Gies

  • Hermine "Miep" Gies (née Santruschitz; 15 February 1909 – 11 January 2010) (Dutch pronunciation: ['mip 'xis]), was one of the Dutch citizens who hid Anne Frank, her family (Otto Frank, Margot Frank, Edith Frank-Holländer) 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 business premises during World War II.
  • She was Austrian by birth, but in 1920, at the age of eleven, she was taken in as a foster child by a Dutch family to whom she became very attached.
  • Although she was initially only to stay for six months, this stay was extended to one year because of frail health, after which Gies chose to remain with them, living the rest of her life in the Netherlands.
  • She died in 2010 at 100 years of age. In 1933, Gies began working for Otto Frank, a Jewish businessman who had moved with his family from Germany to the Netherlands in hopes of sparing his family from Nazi persecution.
  • She became a close, trusted friend of the Frank family and was a great support to them during the two years they spent in hiding.
  • Together with her colleague Bep Voskuijl, she retrieved Anne Frank's diary after the family was arrested and kept the papers safe until Otto Frank returned from Auschwitz in 1945 and learned of his younger daughter's death.
  • Gies had stored Anne Frank's papers in the hopes of returning them to the girl, but gave them to Otto Frank, who compiled them into a diary first published in 1947. In collaboration with Alison Leslie Gold, Gies wrote the book Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family in 1987.

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