Miep Gies hid the Frank family for years during the German occupation of the Netherlands and even saved Anne Frank's diary ...
Miep Gies was an independent 24-year-old with a busy social calendar and a dance club membership when she began working for Anne Frank’s father Otto in 1933 at Opekta, his successful jam ...
One can see the typewriter that belonged to Miep Gies, the Frank family confidante who hid Anne’s diary after she was captured and sent east. Also, some advertising for Otto’s pectin and spice ...
In March 1945, Anne Frank died of typhus at the age of 15 in ... The same year, his former colleague Miep Gies gave him the personal diary of his youngest daughter. During the war, Gies had ...
She did not learn Dutch very well,” Anne’s cousin Buddy Elias would say in an interview decades later. Miep was Otto Frank’s secretary, and she and husband Jan Gies helped the Frank family ...
“Anne Frank’s story is not just history — it ... Following select performances, Tia McMillen, who portrays Miep Gies, will lead a post-show discussion on historical memory and the importance ...