Miep Gies opened the “secret annex” in her employer’s office building where Nazis had just arrested her boss, Otto Frank, who ...
Jacqueline Sanders-van Maarsen (above left) met Anne (above right) at school in Amsterdam in 1941, after the Nazi invasion of ...
Esther Freud introduces an extract from the heartbreaking wartime diaries of Edith Velmans, born 100 years ago ...
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Kate Gies teaches at George Brown College. She likes the colour pink, and has three beautiful cats. She was born without a right ear; she is deaf on that side. It was this last biographical fact ...
Kate Gies teaches creative non-fiction at George Brown College and is the author of It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished: A Memoir of My Body. For years, my body felt like an adversary I had to ...
Of the eight Jews who hid in the annex, only Otto Frank survived. Miep Gies, who had assisted the group with food and other support during their time in hiding, had preserved Anne’s writings and ...
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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 fresh take on the tragic story of Anne Frank, with Bel Powley as Miep Gies – a Dutch secretary who shelters her employer, Otto Frank and his family during the war. There’s much courage and ...