IV 
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 Flor-
ida, 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 resolu-
tion; 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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•HRES 1074 IH 
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 as-
sist 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, sup-
plies, 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 Mar-
got 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 inspira-
tional 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 re-
sistance 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 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) recognizes Miep Gies’s courage in risking 
her own life to hide and provide for the Frank fam-
ily while they were in hiding; 
(2) commends Miep Gies for retrieving and pre-
serving the diary of Anne Frank, which has served 
as an inspiration to countless people the world over; 
and 
(3) honors Miep Gies for her bravery during 
Nazi occupation of the Netherlands and her dedica-
tion to preserving the memory of Anne Frank and 
the Holocaust. 
Æ 
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