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Miep Gies
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Dutch citizen who hid Anne Frank (1909–2010)
OverviewAI-generated
Miep Gies (1909–2010) was a Dutch writer, resistance fighter, and secretary. Born in Vienna, she held citizenship in the Kingdom of the Netherlands and worked in Amsterdam. Her native language was German, and she also spoke Dutch. She was employed by Opekta Nederland and was a member of the Catholic Church. Gies was married to Jan Gies.
She is recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations and received the Raoul Wallenberg Award. Her published works include *Meine Zeit mit Anne Frank*, *Elle s'appelait Anne Frank*, *Anne Frank Remembered the story of the woman who helped to hide the Frank Framily*, and *Herinneringen aan Anne Frank*. Gies died of natural causes due to disease in Hoorn, Abbekerk, on January 11, 2010.
Synthesized by Vinony from 38 facts across 9 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Firecrawl, Wikiquote, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1909
- Works
- 24
Top works
- Meine Zeit mit Anne Frank
- Elle s'appelait Anne Frank
- Anne Frank Remembered the story of the woman who helped to hide the Frank Framily
- Herinneringen aan Anne Frank
- Anne Frank remembered
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 1
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy
· 2012 · cited 2,926x
- Insights into the phylogeny and coding potential of microbial dark matter
· 2013 · cited 2,339x
- A SURVEY OF STELLAR FAMILIES: MULTIPLICITY OF SOLAR-TYPE STARS
· 2010 · cited 1,680x
- Once-Weekly Semaglutide in Adolescents with Obesity
· 2022 · cited 648x
- A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Liraglutide for Adolescents with Obesity
· 2020 · cited 645x
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Quotes
- “I myself am just an ordinary woman. I had a lot of choices”
- “I don't want to be considered a hero. Imagine young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero? I was not. I was just an ordinary housewife and secretary.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- 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 ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1941 ; died 1993 )
- Website
- miepgies.com
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Miep Gies :: Home
Miep Gies staat bekend als 'de vrouw, die het dagboek van Anne Frank redde' en is een van de bekendste 'helpers' uit de Tweede Wereldoorlog.
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Encyclopedic overview
Otto Frank (father of Anne Frank) and Miep Gies, Achterhuis, Anne Frankhuis, Amsterdam, 9 May 1958 Miep and her husband Jan Gies at the book presentation of Miep Gies: Herinneringen aan Anne Frank (the Dutch version of the book Anne Frank remembered : the story of the woman who helped to hide the Frank family, 1987) in Anne Frankhuis near the moveable bookcase covering the stair to the secret hiding place "Achterhuis", Anne Frankhuis, Amsterdam, 5 May 1987
Hermine "Miep" Gies ( Dutch: [mip ˈxis]; née Santrouschitz; 15 February 1909 – 11 January 2010) was one of the Dutch citizens who hid Anne Frank, her family (Otto, Margot, Edith) and four 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 family in Leiden to whom she became very attached. Although she was only supposed to stay for six months, this stay was extended to one year because of frail health, after which Gies chose to remain with them, living the rest of her life in the Netherlands.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Miep Gies” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.