Jacqueline Sanders-van Maarsen (above left) met Anne (above right) at school in Amsterdam in 1941, after the Nazi invasion of ...
Miep Gies opened the “secret annex” in her employer’s office building where Nazis had just arrested her boss, Otto Frank, who ...
Esther Freud introduces an extract from the heartbreaking wartime diaries of Edith Velmans, born 100 years ago ...
Victor Kugler, Miep Gies, Johannes Kleiman, and Jan Gies made a moral choice to defy darkness and protect the innocent. Their bravery reminds us that even in the most terrifying times, there were ...
Anne is the one who is most and best known because of the sheer miracle of her keeping the diary and her journals being saved, Miep Gies, one of the people who protected the Franks in the Annex ...
A Small Light focuses on the dangerous, high-stakes travails of Miep Gies, the Dutch woman who risked it all to shelter Anne Frank’s family, during World War II. There are many, many films and ...
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 ...
It did already occur: think of Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia." — Miep Gies 52. "If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed ...