And you ask, “Who the hell is Miep Gies?” You haven’t been to Anne Frankhuis lately, have you?
Miep Gies, along with Johannes Klieman, Victor Kugler, and Bep Voskuijl were the ‘helpers’ who aided the Frank and Van Pels families during their two years in the annex. Sixty-some years ago, Miep risked her own well-being to try to help eight people survive. It was Miep who gathered up Anne notebooks, saving them for Anne’s hoped return. In a way, what she and her co-horts did was basic. They aided friends. But they did it under the threat of death.
Miep lives in Amsterdam, and plans to celebrate her birthday with her son and three grandchildren.
You go, hero!
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