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On 11 January 2010, Gies died, aged 100, in the city of Hoorn after suffering injuries from a fall. [16] [22] Gies was interviewed about her memories of hiding the Frank family for the 1995 documentary film Anne Frank Remembered by Jon Blair. Miep Gies' story was adapted into a television miniseries called A Small Light.
Gies died on 11 January 2010, following a short illness, at the age of 100. Jan Gies (Miep's husband, known as Henk in The Diary of a Young Girl) was a social worker and, for part of the war, a member of the Dutch Resistance; thus, he was able to procure things for the people in the annex that would have been almost impossible to obtain any ...
Jan Augustus Gies (Dutch pronunciation: [jɑŋ ˈɣis]; [a] 18 August 1905 – 26 January 1993) was a member of the Dutch Resistance who, with his wife, Miep, helped hide Anne Frank, her sister Margot, their parents Otto and Edith, the van Pels family, and Fritz Pfeffer from Nazi persecution during the occupation of the Netherlands by aiding them as they resided in the Secret Annex.
Miep and Jan Gies real-life story, and the eventual fate of the Dutch couple who sheltered the Franks.
After Anne Frank's death was confirmed in the summer of 1945, her diary and papers were given to Otto Frank by Miep Gies, who had rescued them from the ransacked hiding place together with Bep Voskuijl. As Miep Gies wrote in her book, Anne Frank Remembered, Frank immediately started to read the papers. Later he began transcribing them for his ...
Bel Powley stars in the National Geographic series “A Small Light” as Miep Gies, the woman who helped hide Otto Frank and his family during WWII. During a reception for the show Thursday at ...
A new series shines a light on Miep Gies, the woman who made sure that diary made it out of the Holocaust. Sheila Flynn writes An ordinary woman preserved Anne Frank’s diary for the world.
Miep Gies, 100, Dutch humanitarian, protector of Anne Frank during World War II, complications from a fall. [ 172 ] Mick Green , 65, British rock and roll guitarist ( Johnny Kidd & The Pirates , Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas ).