Miep Gies
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Hermine "Miep" Gies (née Santruschitz, 1909–2010) was one of the Dutch people who hid Anne Frank, her family (Otto Frank, Margot Frank, Edith Frank-Holländer), and four other Dutch Jews (Fritz Pfeffer, Hermann van Pels, Peter van Pels, 10 January 2010) from the Nazis in an annex above Otto Frank's business premises during World War II.
She was Austrian by birth, but when she turned 11 years old, she was taken in as a foster child by a Dutch family to whom she became very close.
Despite the fact that she was expected to stay for six months, this time was postponed to one year due to frailty, and Gies decided to stay with them for the remainder of her life in the Netherlands.
She died in 2010 at the age of 100. In 1933, Gies began working for Otto Frank, a Jewish businessman who had migrated from Germany to the Netherlands in the hopes of saving his family from Nazi persecution.
During the two years they spent in hiding, she became a close, trusted friend of the Frank family and was a great help to them.
Anne Frank's diary was recovered after the family was detained and stored the papers safe until Otto Frank returned from Auschwitz in 1945 and learned of his younger daughter's death.
Gies had stored Anne Frank's papers in the hopes of returning them to the girl, but they were given to Otto Frank, who compiled them into a diary that was first published in 1947. Anne Frank Remembered: The Woman Who Aided the Frank Family in 1987, a book by Alison Leslie Goldman Gies.
Early life
Born in Vienna to Karoline Maria Santrouschitz, Gies was taken from Vienna in December 1920 to escape Austria's food shortages following World War II. The Nieuwenburgs, a working-class family who had five children of their own, adopted her as their foster child and named her by the diminutive "Miep" by which she was identified. She and her foster family moved to Gaaspstraat 25 in Amsterdam in 1922. Gies & Company's founder, Sarah Ferguson, described herself as "reserved and very independent" after graduating high school; as an accountant and then as a secretary with the Dutch branch of the German spice company Opekta (later known as Gies & Company). "But the office was not the only thing in my life," Gies wrote. At this time, my social life was full of energy. I loved dancing and belonged to a dance company like many young Dutch girls.
Otto Frank had just moved from Germany and had been named as the managing director of Opekta's recently expanded Dutch operations. As did her fiancé, Jan Gies, Gies, Frank's employee, became a close friend of the family. After refusing to enroll in a Nazi women's group, her passport was invalidated, and she was ordered to be recalled back to Austria in 90 days (by Germany, who characterized her as a German citizen). Both the couple had their challenges in the beginning, but they were married on July 16, 1941, so that she could obtain Dutch citizenship and thus avoid deportation. "Anne was captivated by my gold ring." She regarded it with skepticism. (...) We had just one ring when times were tough, but we did not have two, but a couple was to have two. [Henk wrote Henk in her book because Anne Frank had used Henk in her diary] And I only barely scraped together enough funds for one gold ring. "I should wear it," he had said. The Frank family were assimilated into Dutch and German society by Gies' fluency, and she and her husband became regular visitors at the Franks' house.