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| | death_date = {{death date and age|2010|01|11|1909|2|15|df=y}} | |||
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| | known_for = Hiding Jews such as ] and family from the ] | |||
| |religion = ]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://teacher.scholastic.com/frank/moving.htm |title=Miep Gies: Moving to Holland |publisher=Scholastic|accessdate=2011-08-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2010/01/miep_gies_was_a_true_saint.html |title=Sainthood for Miep Gies |author=Menachem Z. Rosensaft |work=The Washington Post |date=January 12, 2010 | accessdate=2010-05-12}}</ref> | |||
| | spouse = ] (1905–1993)<br> (1941–1993; his death) | |||
| | children =Paul Gies (born 1950) | |||
| | website = http://www.miepgies.com | |||
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| '''Hermine Santruschitz''' (15 February 1909 – 11 January 2010),<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8453331.stm |title=Anne Frank diary guardian Miep Gies dies aged 100 |publisher=BBC News |date=12 January 2010 |accessdate=12 January 2010}}</ref> better known as '''Miep Gies''' ({{IPA-nl|mip xis}}), was one of the ] citizens who hid ], her family and four other Jews from the ] in an annex above Anne's father's business premises during ]. She was Austrian by birth, but in 1920, at the age of only eleven, 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 she chose to remain with them, living the rest of her life in the Netherlands. In 1933 she began working for ], a businessman who had moved with his family from Germany to the Netherlands in hopes of sparing his family Nazi persecution because they were ]. Miep became a close, trusted friend of the family and was a great support to them during the two years they spent in hiding. She retrieved ] after the family was arrested and kept the papers safe until Otto Frank returned from Auschwitz in 1945, and learned of his youngest daughter's death.<ref>Obituary '']'', 12 January 2010.</ref><ref>Obituary '']'', 12 January 2010.</ref><ref>Obituary '']'', 13 January 2010.</ref><ref>Obituary '']'', 13 January 2010.</ref><ref>Obituary '']'', 14 January 2010.</ref><ref name=BBC100>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7891056.stm |title=Anne Frank guardian reaches 100 |publisher=BBC News |date=15 February 2009}}</ref><ref name=LATimes>{{cite news |url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/02/miep-geis-anne.html |title=Miep Gies, Anne Frank's custodian, turns 100 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |author=Carolyn Kellogg |date=17 February 2009}}</ref> | |||
| Together with ] Miep authored the book ''Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family'', first published in 1987. | |||
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| == Early life == | |||
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| Born '''Hermine Santruschitz''' in ], (later spelled as '''Santrouschitz''' in the Netherlands), she was transported to ] from ] in December 1920 to escape the food shortages prevailing in Austria after ]. The Nieuwenburg family took her as their foster daughter, and called her by the diminutive "Miep" by which she became known. In 1922, she moved with her foster family to ]. In 1933, she met ] when she applied for the post of temporary secretary with the Dutch branch of the German firm ]. Otto Frank had just relocated from Germany and had been appointed Managing Director of their Dutch operations. The company, with head offices in ], Germany, sold a ] preparation used for making jams and jellies, and had recently expanded to the Netherlands. 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 the Frank family, as did ], her long-time fiancé. After refusing to join a Nazi women's association, her passport was invalidated and she was ordered to be deported within ninety days back to Austria (by then annexed by Germany, and by default she was now classified as a German citizen and had been forced to accept a German Passport). The couple were married as quickly as possible on 16 July 1941 so that she could obtain Dutch citizenship, and thus evade deportation. Her fluency in ] and ] helped the Frank family assimilate into Dutch society, and she and her husband became regular guests at the Franks' home. They were the Franks' greatest friends until Otto Franks death. | |||
| ==Hiding the families== | |||
| With her husband ], and the other ] employees, ], ], and ], Miep Gies helped hide Otto and Edith Frank, their daughters ] and ], ] and his wife ], their son ], and ] in several upstairs rooms in the company's office building on Amsterdam's ] from July 6, 1942 to August 4, 1944.<ref>María Mercedes Romagnoli The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation</ref> In an interview, Miep said she was glad to help the families hide because she was extremely concerned about them seeing what was happening to the Jews in ]. Every day, she saw trucks loaded with Jews heading to the railway station from where the trains left for ]. She did not tell anyone, not even her own foster parents, about the people in hiding whom she was assisting. | |||
| When purchasing food for the people in hiding, Miep avoided suspicion in many ways, for example by visiting several different suppliers a day. She never carried more than what one shopping bag could hold or what she could hide under her coat. She kept the workers at Opekta from being suspicious by trying not to enter the hiding place during office hours. Her husband also helped her by providing ration cards which he had obtained illegally. By visiting several grocery shops and markets a day, Miep developed a good feeling for the supply situation. | |||
| At their apartment, a short bicycle ride away from the secret annex, Miep and her husband (who belonged to the ]), also hid an anti-Nazi university student.<ref>{{Cite news|journal=The New York Times|title=Miep Gies, Protector of Anne Frank, Dies at 100|date=11 January 2010|author=Goldstein, Richard|accessdate=18 August 2012}}</ref> | |||
| ===The capture=== | |||
| On the morning of August 4, 1944, sitting at her desk, Miep looked up and saw a man pointing a gun towards Anne and her sister and said, "Sit down! Don't even flinch!" The families had been betrayed and the ] arrested the people hidden at 263 Prinsengracht, as well as Mr. Kugler and Johannes Kleiman. The next day, Miep went to the German police office to try to find them. She offered money to buy their freedom, but did not succeed. Miep and the other helpers could have been executed if they had been caught hiding Jews; however, she was not arrested because the police officer who came to interrogate her was from ], her birth town. Apart from the shock and heartbreak for her friends, Miep remained safe with Jan in Amsterdam throughout the rest of the war. | |||
| Before the hiding place was emptied by the authorities, Miep retrieved Anne Frank's diaries and saved them in her desk drawer. Once the war was over and it was confirmed that Anne Frank had perished in ], Gies gave the collection of papers and notebooks to the sole survivor from the ], Otto Frank.<ref name="BBC100"/> After transcribing sections for his family, his daughter's literary ability became apparent and he arranged for the book's publication in 1947. Gies did not read the diaries before turning them over to Otto, and later remarked that if she had she would have had to destroy them because the diary contained the names of all five of the helpers as well as their ] suppliers. She was persuaded by Otto Frank to read it in its second printing.<ref name=LATimes/> | |||
| ==Honors and awards== | |||
| In 1994, Gies was awarded the ] as well as the ] by the ]. The following year, Gies received the ] ]. In 1997, she was knighted by ]. The ] ] is named in her honor.<ref>.</ref> | |||
| On July 30, 2009, the Austrian Ambassador to the Netherlands, Wolfgang Paul presented ] to Gies at her home.<ref>{{cite web | last= | first= | title=Grand Decoration of Honour for Services | date= | url=http://www.miepgies.nl/en/615.html |accessdate=27 September 2012 }}</ref> | |||
| ==Death== | |||
| On January 11, 2010, Miep Gies died at the age of 100 in a nursing home by falling short before christmas, in ], a town in the Netherlands. She outlived her husband, Jan Gies, by 17 years. She was survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Paul & Lucie Gies, and three grandchildren, Erwin, Jeanine, and David. Poopslinger337 Ban Him now! | |||
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{{Infobox person | name = Miep Gies | image = Miep Gies (1987).jpg | caption = Miep Gies (1987) | birth_name = Hermine Santruschitz | birth_date = 15 February, 1909 | birth_place = Vienna, Austria-Hungary | death
Miep gies was the best lad in the worl, he was a big fanny