May she enjoy God’s embrace. I hope he hugs and kisses her for us.
Woman Who Hid Anne Frank from Nazis, Dies at 100
The woman who risked her own life by hiding Dutch Jewish teenager Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis, Miep Gies, has died. She would have been 101 years old next month…
Gies worked for Anne Frank’s father, Otto, when the Nazis invaded the Netherlands. He asked Gies to help hide his family in an empty section of the company warehouse. She and others provided food, books and companionship to the Franks while they hid for two years.
Informers tipped off the Nazis, who arrested the family and shipped them off to concentration camps, where Anne Frank died months later.
Gies gathered up Anne Frank’s papers and notebooks after the family’s hiding place was discovered in August 1944. Gies kept the girl’s diary and later gave it back to Otto Frank, the only one of his family to survive the Nazi concentration camps…
Gies wrote a book in 1987 called Anne Frank Remembered. She spent her later years speaking out against racism and Holocaust deniers. She always denied being a hero, saying she only did what she had to do.
And yes, I know this is from a few weeks ago but her passing is worth noting despite my being unforgivably distracted by the crap in Washington.
In today’s world, people like Miep Gies are very few and far between. This was a woman who lived through some of the worst oppression and poverty the world has ever seen. Protecting the Frank family took an amazing amount of courage and sheer inner strength. For her to say that she only did what she had to do only shows what great character this woman had.
God Love Her For Doing The Right Thing.
May She Rest In Infinite Peace.
one of my cats is named after her- mostly because she’s this tiny little cat with the bravery of a lion and a heart of gold. miep gies has been knighted and has an asteroid named after her.
her saving of anne frank’s diary is probably one of the most significant factors in humanizing the holocaust for an astonished world that sometimes still refuses to believe such a thing took place. when it was first published people even protested that it was some jewish trick, that no child could have written it all in the service of cover up and denial. it’s impossible to truly comprehend the murder of over 6 million innocent humans .having one victim elicit such a widespread, sympathetic and outraged response is a service to all who perished and a reminder of what humans are capable of- every and any atrocity imaginable .
“One single Anne Frank moves us more than the countless others who suffered just as she did but whose faces have remained in the shadows. Perhaps it is better that way; if we were capable of taking in all the suffering of all those people, we would not be able to live.”-primo levi, auschwitz survivor/author
anne frank and her sister died in auschwitz which was liberated january 28 1945.
“May she enjoy God’s embrace.”
Beautiful sentiment. Amen to that.
Tammy, it’s never too late to give honor to the memory of Miep Gies.Thanks for your beautiful words.
This story should be page 1 on every newspaper. I hope they still teach this book in high school english classes. I wanna read it again.