Biography miep gies
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'I was born in Vienna as Hermine Santruschitz (spelt later in the Netherlands as Santrouschitz), on February 15, 1909. My parents did not have the means to take proper care of me, so that was an unfortunate start. The lack of food as a result of the First World War meant that inom became undernourished and was often ill. But in the autumn of 1920 I was suddenly presented the opportunity to spend three months in the Netherlands, tillsammans with other malnourished Austrian and Hungarian working class children, to regain strength with a foster family in stad. So that was a fortunate twist, I dare say. My foster parents, heeding the doctor's advice, then decided to man me part of their family permanently. With the situation in Austria remaining as it was, my parents realized that inom would be better off in the Netherlands than I could ever be in Austria, so they agreed. Fortune again smiled on me, and then we moved from universitet to Amsterdam, where inom felt at home immediately.
Miep Gies, ear
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Miep Gies
Dutch citizen who hid Anne Frank (1909–2010)
Miep Gies | |
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Gies in 1987 | |
| Born | Hermine Santrouschitz 15 February 1909 Vienna, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 11 January 2010(2010-01-11) (aged 100) Hoorn, Netherlands |
| Known for | Hiding Dutch Jews, including Anne Frank and her family, from the Nazis; keeping Anne's diary |
| Spouse | Jan Gies (m. 1941; died 1993) |
| Children | 1 |
| Website | miepgies.com |
Hermine "Miep" Gies (Dutch:[mipˈxis];[a]née Santrouschitz; 15 February 1909 – 11 January 2010) was one of the Dutch citizens who hid Anne Frank, her family (Otto, Margot, Edith) and 4 other Dutch Jews (Fritz Pfeffer, Hermann van Pels, Auguste van Pels, Peter van Pels) from the Nazis in an annex above Otto Frank's business premises during World War II. She was Austrian by birth, but in 1920, at the age of eleven, she was taken in as a foster child by a Dutch fa
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Miep Gies
This educational resource for secondary school aged students tells the story of Miep Gies, the woman who supported Anne Frank and her family when they were in hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam.
You can download a printable version of the case study here
Miep was born over a hundred years ago in 1909, in Vienna. During World War One, when she was very young, she didn’t have enough food and as a result, Miep often became ill. In 1920 a Dutch family offered to look after her and help her get better. Miep’s parents thought that this was the best thing for her and that Holland would be a safe place for her to be.
When she was older, Miep started working for a Jewish man called Otto Frank. Otto had moved to Holland from Germany in the 1930s with his wife Edith and daughters Margot and Anne. Germany had become dangerous for Jews and Otto thought Holland would be safer.
Jewish people across Europe were being treated unfairly and were losing many of their rights