caption website death_date death_place religion birth_place children name birth_date known_for spouse image article_title birth_name death_cause
miep gies -lrb- 1987 -rrb- http://www.miepgies.com 11 january 2010 hoorn , north holland , netherlands roman catholic vienna , austria-hungary paul gies -lrb- born 1950 -rrb- '' ` miep gies '' ' 15 february 1909 hiding the nazis jews such as anne frank and family from jan -- 1993 ; his death -rrb- gies -lrb- 1905 -- 1993 -rrb- -lrb- 1941 miep gies -lrb- 1987 -rrb- . jpg miep gies
 hermine santruschitz injuries sustained from fall
miep gies

hermine santruschitz -lrb- 15 february 1909 -- 11 january 2010 -rrb- , better known as miep gies -lrb- -rrb- , was one of the dutch citizens who hid anne frank , her family and four other jews from the nazis in an annex above anne 's father 's business premises during world war ii .
she was austrian by birth , but in 1920 , at the age of eleven , she 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 otto frank , a businessman who had moved with his family from germany to the netherlands in hopes of sparing his family nazi persecution because they were jewish .
gies 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 anne frank 's diary after the family was arrested and kept the papers safe until otto frank returned from auschwitz in 1945 , and learned of his younger daughter 's death .
together with alison leslie gold gies authored the book `` anne frank remembered : the story of the woman who helped to hide the frank family '' , first published in 1987 .
