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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.
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 ...
Miep and Jan Gies real-life story, and the eventual fate of the Dutch couple who sheltered the Franks.
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 ...
In his personal life, Neill was married to Noriko Watanabe from 1989 to 2017. ... A Small Light, which tells the story of how the Frank family was hidden from the Nazis by Jan and Miep Gies.
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 Anne Frank’s story transformed the world’s view of the Holocaust.
Their concealment was aided by Otto Frank's colleagues Johannes Kleiman, whom he had known since 1923, Miep Gies, and her husband Jan Gies; Victor Kugler, and Bep Voskuijl. [18] The group hid for two years, until their discovery in August 1944. It is not known whether an informant or a chance discovery by authorities ended their period of refuge.
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