Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family

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They discovered that Gies and her husband, Jan, had hidden more people than previously known, including two nurses. They strapped a pair of wooden skates with curling blades to my shoes with leather thongs, and pushed me out onto the frozen surface. He who saves one life, it is as if he saved an entire world' The Holocaust will be forever numbered amongst the darkest of days in human civilisation. Her story focuses on Anne Frank's plight, that of her immediate family and of the other three persecuted Jews who hid for over two years in the secret annexe in Prinsengracht, Amsterdam. Thirteen years after Gies’ death at age 100, a limited series from National Geographic that’s streaming on Hulu and Disney+, focuses on the life of Anne’s protector.

Miep Gies was one of the people who hid Anne Frank, her family, and four friends in the Secret Annex in Amsterdam in 1942. Every August 4, the anniversary of the Secret Annex residents’ arrest, the Gieses “remained at their Amsterdam home, [where] they withdrew from the world and reflected on the lost,” Goldstein added. She believes the couple “would be very touched” by the new series and continued interest in the story of their lives, the Franks and the others they helped. When we started digging, we started putting together these pieces that I don’t know that anybody had ever put together before,” Phelan tells the New York Times’ Claire Moses. Miep claims she was only doing what any decent person would do—and there were many unsung heroes of the Holocaust—but she went far above and beyond to protect them.

Neither one came back to live with us, so by the time the war ended I lived with just Mother, Father, and Grandmother. Miep is an ordinary person who history has mythologized like Anne Frank,” Rater tells the Daily Beast’s Jacqueline Cutler. Joining Otto after he settled into life abroad, the rest of the Frank family—his wife, Edith, and daughters, Margot and Anne—soon became friends with Gies, too.

Ik had geen idee dat zij dat allemaal op zou schrijven’, Herinneringen van Miep Gies aan Anne Frank". The next morning the same woman came to the room, dressed me in clean clothes, and took me downstairs. Incredible book, beautifully written and performed, casting a light on a true survivor, humanitarian and the reason we were able to discover Anne Frank's life in writing.

I'm so sorry for the Jewish people; those who endured the "worst" that could happen and those that live with its history. that it’s admirable to have the guts to stick your neck out — and in a modest way to not make a show about courage — and that friendship is worth risking your life for, when your friends are in trouble.

I can't think of anyone who has not heard of Anne Frank or her diary that depicts the tragic story of the little girl who did not survive the holocaust.Reissued in the year of Miep Gies' 100th birthday, this international bestseller includes a brand-new afterword by the author. In Vienna, there were old buildings, not in good condition, built around central courtyards and broken up into many apartments filled with working people.