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| subject_name = Miep Gies |
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| image_caption = Miep Gies, 1945 |
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'''Miep Gies''' (born ],], ]) is one of the ] citizens who hid ] and her family from the ]s during ]. She discovered and preserved ] after Anne Frank's arrest and deportation. |
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Born Hermine Santrouschitz, she was evacuated to ] in the ] from ] in December ] to escape the food shortages prevailing in Austria after ], and moved, with her foster family, to ] in ]. There, in ], she met ] when she applied for the post of temporary secretary in his spice company, ]. She initially ran the Complaints and Information desk in Opekta, and was eventually promoted to a more general administrative role. She became a close friend of his family, as did ], whom she married on July 16, 1941 after she refused to join a Nazi women's association and was threatened with deportation back to ]. Her knowledge of ] and ] helped assimilate the Frank family into life in the Netherlands, and Miep and Jan became regular guests at the Franks' home. |
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With her husband, and her colleagues, ], ] and ], Miep Gies helped hide ] and Otto Frank, their daughters ] and Anne, ] and ], their son ] and ] in the sealed-off back rooms of the company's office building on Amsterdam's ] from July ] until ],]. |
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In theory, Miep and the other helpers could have been shot if they had been caught hiding Jews. In practice, however, those caught hiding Jews were more commonly sentenced to four to six months of hard labor. On the morning of August 4th, 1944, an anonymous informant informed the Gestapo about the people hidden at Frank's place of business. All those in hiding, as well as Victor Kugler and Johannes Kleiman, were arrested. Three separate criminal investigations after the ] all failed to identify the informant. |
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Miep found the discarded diaries of Anne Frank and saved them in a desk drawer for Anne's return. Once the war was over and it was confirmed that Anne had perished in ]'s ]. Gies gave the collection of papers and notebooks that made up the diary to the sole survivor from the ], Anne's father, Otto Frank; he arranged for the book's publication in ]. Miep did not read the diaries herself before turning them over to Otto Frank, and later remarked that, if she had, she would have had to destroy them because of the incriminating information in them. She was, however, persuaded by Otto Frank to read Anne's diary in its second printing. |
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Once the book was published and widely translated, Miep and Jan Gies became celebrities in the Netherlands, and their courage was recognised with awards from several international organisations. Among others, they won the ] Award for Bravery and the ] award. In ], Miep Gies received the ]; in ], she was awarded the ] medal, and, in ], she was knighted by ] ]. |
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Her only child, Paul Gies, was born on ], ]. |
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She was recently portrayed by actress ] in a scene in the successful ] ], '']'', based on a visit she made to students in a ] high school. |
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Miep Gies currently lives in the Dutch province of ]. |
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==Further reading== |
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* ''The Diary of Anne Frank: The Revised Critical Edition'', Anne Frank, edited by David Barnouw and Gerrold Van der Stroom, translated by Arnold J. Pomerans, compiled by H. J. J. Hardy, second edition, Doubleday ]. |
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* ''Anne Frank Remembered'', Miep Gies with Alison Leslie Gold, Simon and Schuster ]. |
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* ''Roses from the Earth: the Biography of Anne Frank'', Carol Ann Lee, Penguin ]. |
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* ''Anne Frank: the Biography'', Melissa Muller, afterword by Miep Gies, Bloomsbury ]. |
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* ''The Footsteps of Anne Frank'', Ernst Schnabel, Pan ]. |
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* ''The Hidden Life of Otto Frank'', Carol Ann Lee, Penguin ]. |
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