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Miep Gies
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Dutch citizen who hid Anne Frank (1909–2010)
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Miep Gies, born Hermine Santrouschitz in Vienna, was a Dutch writer, resistance fighter, and secretary. A Catholic native German speaker, she worked in Amsterdam as a secretary for Opekta Nederland. She was married to Jan Gies and held citizenship in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Her professional life included writing works such as *Meine Zeit mit Anne Frank*, *Elle s'appelait Anne Frank*, and *Anne Frank Remembered*.
Gies is recognized in the Righteous Among the Nations collection and received the Raoul Wallenberg Award. Her writings are held in the Anne Frank House collection. She lived to be a centenarian and died in Hoorn, Abbekerk, in 2010 from natural causes due to disease.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1909
- Works
- 24
Top works
- Meine Zeit mit Anne Frank
- Elle s'appelait Anne Frank
- Anne Frank Remembered the story of the woman who helped to hide the Frank Framily
- Herinneringen aan Anne Frank
- Anne Frank remembered
via Open Library + Wikidata
Key facts
- Born
- Hermine Santrouschitz , 15 February 1909, Vienna , Austria-Hungary
- Died
- 11 January 2010 (2010-01-11) (aged 100), Hoorn , Netherlands
- Known for
- Hiding Dutch Jews, including Anne Frank and her family, from the Nazis ; keeping Anne's diary
- Spouse
- Jan Gies ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1941 ; died 1993 )
- Website
- miepgies.com
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Miep Gies :: Home
Miep Gies staat bekend als 'de vrouw, die het dagboek van Anne Frank redde' en is een van de bekendste 'helpers' uit de Tweede Wereldoorlog.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Place of birth
- Vienna
- Place of death
- Abbekerk
- Spouse
- Jan Gies
- Occupation
- resistance fighter
- Employer
- Opekta Nederland
- Languages spoken
- Dutch
- Native language
- German
- Religion
- Catholic Church
- Official website
- miepgies.nl
- Image
- Miep Gies (1987).jpg
- Work location
- Amsterdam
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- Commons category
- Miep Gies
- date of death
- 2010-01-11
- date of birth
- 1909-02-15
- cause of death
- disease
- name in kana
- ミープ・ヒース
- name in native language
- Miep Gies
- subject has role
- centenarian
- manner of death
- natural causes
- has works in the collection
- Anne Frank House
- birth name
- Hermine Santrouschitz
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Encyclopedic overview
Otto Frank (father of Anne Frank) and Miep Gies, Achterhuis, Anne Frankhuis, Amsterdam, 9 May 1958 Miep and her husband Jan Gies at the book presentation of Miep Gies: Herinneringen aan Anne Frank (the Dutch version of the book Anne Frank remembered : the story of the woman who helped to hide the Frank family, 1987) in Anne Frankhuis near the moveable bookcase covering the stair to the secret hiding place "Achterhuis", Anne Frankhuis, Amsterdam, 5 May 1987
Hermine "Miep" Gies ( Dutch: [mip ˈxis]; née Santrouschitz; 15 February 1909 – 11 January 2010) was one of the Dutch citizens who hid Anne Frank, her family (Otto, Margot, Edith) and four other Dutch Jews (Fritz Pfeffer, Hermann van Pels, Auguste van Pels, Peter van Pels) from the Nazis in an annex above Otto Frank'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 in Leiden to whom she became very attached. Although she was only supposed to stay for six months, this stay was extended to one year because of frail health, after which Gies chose to remain with them, living the rest of her life in the Netherlands.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Miep Gies” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.