Miep Gies

Miep Gies, née Hermine Santrouschitz (born 15 February 1909; died 11 January 2010), was one of the Dutch citizens who hid Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis during World War II. 

 Hiding Anne Frank 
Gies found and kept Anne's diary after the Nazis found Anne and sent her to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Gies did not read the diary; she thought that would be rude. Instead, she gave it to Otto Frank, Anne's father, immediately after she found it in the annex where she hid the Franks.

Otto Frank put together Anne's writings, and they were first published in 1947. Today, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl has sold tens of millions of copies.

On her website, Gies stated:I stand at the end of the long, long line of good Dutch people who did what I did or more – much more – during those dark and terrible times years ago, but always like yesterday in the hearts of those of us who bear witness. Never a day goes by that I do not think of what happened then.Gies died in 2010 at the age of 100.

 Righteous Among the Nations 
On March 8, 1972, Yad Vashem recognized Miep and her husband, Jan Augustus Gies, as Righteous Among the Nations.

 Related pages 

 The Holocaust
 World War II
 Anne Frank
 Righteous Among the Nations

References

 Other websites 

 Miep Gies's authorised website

 Quicktime movie. Miep Gies, in her former office at 263 Prinsengracht, talks about the war years 
 Quicktime movie. Miep Gies remembers how she met Anne Frank
 Profile of Miep Gies by the Anne Frank House
 1998 interview with Miep Gies
 Image of Miep's wartime identity card
 Photo of Miep and Jai Gies, Bip Voskuijl, Victor Kuiler taken in 1970s
 Holocaust Rescuers Bibliography with information and links to books about Miep Gies and other Dutch rescuers. 
 Miep Gies at Yad Vashem website

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