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Miep Gies

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Miep Gies
Miep Gies (1987)
Born	Hermine Santruschitz 15 February 1909 Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died	11 January 2010 (aged 100) Hoorn, North Holland,Netherlands
Cause of death	Accident
Known for	Hiding Jews such as Anne Frankand family from the Nazis
Religion	Roman Catholic[1][2]
Spouse(s)	Jan Gies (1905–1993) (1941–1993; his death)
Children	Paul Gies (born 1950)
Website
http://www.miepgies.com

Hermine Santruschitz (15 February 1909 – 11 January 2010), better known as Miep Gies (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈmip ˈxis]),[3] 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 only eleven, Miep 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. Miep 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.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10] Together with Alison Leslie Gold Miep authored the bookAnne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family, first published in 1987.