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111TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 1074 

Honoring the life of Miep Gies, who aided Anne Frank’s family while they 

were in hiding and preserved her diary for future generations. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

FEBRUARY 4, 2010 

Ms. KILROY (for herself, Mr. ACKERMAN, Mr. WAXMAN, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, 

Mr. CONYERS, Mr. WOLF, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. LEWIS of 

Georgia, Mrs. LOWEY, Mr. ENGEL, Mr. MORAN of Virginia, Mr. PASTOR

of Arizona, Mr. ROHRABACHER, Mr. NADLER of New York, Ms. CORRINE

BROWN of Florida, Mr. FILNER, Mr. GUTIERREZ, Mr. HASTINGS of Florida, Mrs. MALONEY, Ms. HARMAN, Mr. DELAHUNT, Mrs. MCCARTHY of 

New York, Ms. NORTON, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. ROTHMAN of New Jersey, 

Mr. SNYDER, Ms. LEE of California, Ms. BERKLEY, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, 

Mr. BACA, Mr. ISRAEL, Mr. MATHESON, Mr. MILLER of Florida, Mr. 

SIRES, Ms. WATSON, Mr. MICHAUD, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. CLEAVER, Mr. 

LIPINSKI, Mr. COHEN, Mr. ELLISON, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. 

HODES, Mr. SHULER, Mr. HALL of New York, Ms. FUDGE, Mr. NYE, 

Ms. BORDALLO, Mr. POLIS of Colorado, Mr. CAO, Mr. KLEIN of Florida, 

Ms. SCHWARTZ, Mr. PETERS, Mr. CONNOLLY of Virginia, Ms. MARKEY

of Colorado, and Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 

RESOLUTION 

Honoring the life of Miep Gies, who aided Anne Frank’s 

family while they were in hiding and preserved her diary 

for future generations. 

Whereas Hermine ‘‘Miep’’ Gies was born on February 15, 

1909, in Vienna, Austria; 


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Whereas Miep Gies was sent to live with a host family in the 

Netherlands when she was 11 years old after the tumult 

of World War I led to food shortages in Austria; 

Whereas in 1933, Miep Gies took a job as an office assistant 

to Otto Frank, owner of Opekta, a pectin manufacturing 

company, and father of Anne Frank; 

Whereas Miep Gies agreed without hesitation to hide and assist the Frank family to avoid Jewish persecution at the 

hands of Nazi Germany; 

Whereas Miep Gies helped hide and sustain the Frank family, 

along with Hermann and Auguste Van Pels, their son 

Peter, and later Fritz Pfeffer, for two years in a secret 

room above Opekta’s offices, bringing them food, supplies, and writing supplies for Anne; 

Whereas when the Gestapo captured the Frank family, the 

Van Pels family, and Mr. Pfeffer, on August 4, 1944, 

Miep Gies discovered the pages of Anne Frank’s diary in 

the secret room and hid them for safekeeping; 

Whereas after learning that Anne Frank and her sister Margot died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen, Miep Gies gave 

Anne Frank’s diary to her father Otto, the only surviving 

member of the family; 

Whereas ‘‘The Diary of a Young Girl’’ by Anne Frank, which 

has been translated into 70 languages, is both an inspirational story about hope in the face of senseless tragedy 

and an important testament for future generations to the 

horrors of the Holocaust; 

Whereas Miep Gies shared her recollections to author Alison 

Leslie Gold for the book ‘‘Anne Frank Remembered’’, 

which was later made into a powerful documentary film; 


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Whereas Miep Gies, who would recount her extraordinary life 

with a self-effacing modesty that betrayed her unfailing 

courage and integrity, serves as a powerful symbol of resistance against the forces of oppression and injustice; 

Whereas Miep Gies represents the valor demonstrated by the 

countless ordinary individuals who stood up to and helped 

defeat Adolph Hitler’s Nazi regime; and 

Whereas Miep Gies passed away on January 11, 2010: Now, 

therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 

2 (1) recognizes Miep Gies’s courage in risking 

3 her own life to hide and provide for the Frank fam4 ily while they were in hiding; 

5 (2) commends Miep Gies for retrieving and pre6 serving the diary of Anne Frank, which has served 

7 as an inspiration to countless people the world over; 

8 and 

9 (3) honors Miep Gies for her bravery during 

10 Nazi occupation of the Netherlands and her dedica11 tion to preserving the memory of Anne Frank and 

12 the Holocaust. 

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