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Miep Gies is mainly known as the woman who saved Anne Frank's diary. She is one of the best-known helpers from World War II. She received countless letters from all over the world, with questions about Anne Frank and the period in hiding in the Secret Annex.
Jan 11, 2010 · At the same time, Miep and Jan Gies were hiding someone in their own home from May 1943 onwards. Kuno van der Horst, a 23-year-old student, went into hiding with the Gies family because he had refused to sign a declaration of loyalty to the Nazis.
Miep was accompanying a Jewish girl, cycling on an illegal bicycle without a Star of David on her sleeve, on her way to go into hiding. Margot seemed as calm as ever, her face betrayed nothing. They had become accomplices, opposing the German occupiers.
Jan 26, 1993 · In 1943, in addition to caring for the people hiding in the Secret Annex, Jan and Miep Gies also hid someone at home. Kuno van der Horst, a student, had refused to sign a declaration of loyalty. All Dutch students had to promise not to resist the occupying forces.
At their apartment, close to the Merwedeplein where the Franks had lived before going into hiding, Gies and her husband Jan (who belonged to the Dutch resistance) also hid an anti-Nazi university student.
Apr 27, 2023 · Twenty-two years before the Franks went into hiding, Miep’s desperate parents had sent her, at age 11, starving and ill, from their home in Vienna to a foster family in Leiden, Netherlands.
May 12, 2023 · Soon after the SS arrested Anne Frank on August 4, 1944, Miep Gies—one of the helpers who’d hidden the young girl from the Nazis for the past two years—snuck back into her room to see what ...
