Miep Gies: The Frank Family

Who helped hide Anne and the other residents in the annex? Miep Gies was one of the people that helped hide the members in the annex. Even though she knew it was a big risk to hide them she did it anyway because she had a special fondness for Anne. Mainly because she knew what it was like to grow up in such a dangerous time and have to depend on other people for her survival. The residents of the annex had a lot of people willing to risk their own lives to help them. Otto Frank, Anne Frank’s father had solicited the help of Kugler and Kleiman as well as office workers Jan Gies and Bep Voskuijl.

First, Janie, the main character, starts off living and being taken care of her grandmother, Nanny. She later grows up to become married, but their relationship is not genuine because her grandmother wanted her to marry the man. Janie meets a man called Joe Starks and they run off to a town called Eatonville where Joe becomes Mayor and blinded by his power. He becomes violent and domestically abuses Janie. Joe would be manipulative and isolate her from the rest of the town because she was "high-class." They live on to become older, and he eventually dies due to a sickness he needed to have checked two years earlier, but it was too late.

Miep Gies was an important person during the holocaust. She hid Anne Frank and her family along with 4 others in a secret annex for more than 2 years. Under pressure of being caught, Miep did a great job at supplying the hidden Jews with all the things they needed to survive. You may just know Miep as the girl who hid Anne Frank's family, but she was more than that.

The Franks were a Jewish family who were living during the Holocaust. They went into hiding because Margot had gotten a letter and she was going to be taken away to a

Mr. and Mrs. van Daan and their son Peter (who is a few years older than Anne) are also in hiding with the Franks. Anne’s adolescence is spent hidden from the outside world. She’s cooped up in tiny rooms, tiptoeing around during the day. After almost 2 years in hiding they are discovered and deported to concentration camps. Anne’s father, Otto Frank, is the only one of the eight people to survive. After her death Anne becomes world famous because of the diary she wrote while in hiding. Miep Gies is a Dutch woman who assists the annex residents with food, clothing, books, and companionship. She cheerfully assists them with the things they need and pitches in to give them holidays. Along with Elli, she retrieves and saves Anne's diary from the floor after the annex residents are arrested (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miep_Gies). Miep Gies and her husband took action and helped their Jewish friends. This situation affected their daily lives in many different ways. The fact that Miep and her husband helped the Jews, knowing that they

They moved together to the Muck in the Florida Everglades and lived in Tea Cake's Shanty after the death of Joe. Tea Cake and Janie spent all the time they had together. They remained in constant tune with the nature and even went fishing together. This was the type of lifestyle Janie envisioned all her life. All of Janie’s previous relationships was based off of the spouse. Janie was never allowed to be herself and live the life she wanted. Tea Cake let her be herself. He loved her as she was and accepted all she dreamed of. He encouraged her to be what she wanted to be, to follow her goals, her dreams, and her aspirations. Janie had finally found her the man she had always been looking for. She loved him with everything she had. Janie would do anything for Tea Cake. They had the kind of everlasting love that she had hoped for all her life. Thing were going well for the new couple until a bad storm hit and Tea Cake gets bit by a dog trying to save Janie. Tea Cake ultimately get rabies and begins to act so distraught that Janie is forced to kill him. She killed Tea Cake in loving manner and could not bear watch him suffer

She was one of the trusted few to help them stay hidden. Otto Frank had a secret annex in his office building. He knew they needed to hide. He and his family were later joined by Otto Frank’s business partner, his wife, his son, and Miep Gies’ dentist. There were eight people that hid up in the secret annex.

Janie begins to explain her story to her best friend, Phoeby Watson. She tells of how she never met her parents; therefore, he grandmother (Nanny) raised her. It is revealed that Nanny was a slave and because of this, it is her intention to marry of Janie as soon as possible. Janie’s first marriage, set up by Nanny, is to an older gentleman named Logan Killicks. Throughout their marriage, Janie was never able to achieve happiness and later found herself running off with a charming young

But when the franks were supposed to come back, only Otto Frank had survived. Afte Otto Frank told them the story of Anne and the rest of the family, Miep gave Anne's diary to Mr. Frank.

Characters: The narrator of the story remains unnamed throughout the whole story. He marries Isabel, and together they form a family. He has a steady job as a high school algebra teacher; however, he has not been able to evolve away from his social class. He and his family live in a housing project…just like the house Sonny and [he] grew up.

Hans Hubermann... The Jew stood before him, expecting another handful of derision, but he watched with everyone else as Hans Hubermann held his hand out and presented a piece of bread, like magic" (Zusak, 393-394). This proves how selfless he is and how he tolerates being punished in order to bring good to someone else’s life. Another person who worked in order to support a Jewish family at the risk of being killed was Miep Gies. She housed Anne Frank, Margot (Anne’s sister), Anne’s parents, and another family in a secret annexe.

Miep Gies was sent to netherland for care and bonded with her foster family. She had married a dutch man and worked for otter frank, Miep worked as secretary becoming closer to otter frank’s family Miep had helped otter frank’s family she hid them in a secret annex after they were found Miep found the youngest of the group Anne Frank’s diary and stored it and gave it to Anne’s father when he returned after the war, as the only one survived at the concentration camps and once he returned Anne’s diary was once had miep returned the book to anne's father otto frank decided to fulfill his daughter's wishes and arranged for the diary to be published in 1947 (Miep 1).

Miep and Mr. Kraler did not share the information about how the Jews were disappearing from their houses because they did not want the Van Daans, Franks, or Mr. Dussel to freak out about how their friends and their friend’s families were disappearing. All of this ‘family’ are sitting around twenty-four by seven (including the time they sleep, which is how I got the number twenty-four), they could have been worrying about the events and how they could possibly be found and turned in. Mr. Kraler and Miep tried hard to keep the information about the Jews far away from the family. Another reason why they wanted to keep the information from the ‘family’ is because they did not want the family to give up and turn themselves in. They wanted the group

Anne had to suffer many hardships throughout her life especially while in hiding. During this time, the living conditions were poor, relationships formed within the Annex, and having enough food for everyone was very difficult. As the Nazis began invading Germany, the Franks made their way to the Netherlands to begin hiding.

Minny Jackson is married to Leroy, and they have 5 children. She is a very strong women, but who doesn’t take anything from anyone but her husband. Leroy often beats her when he is drunk, but she doesn’t want to tell anyone because she is too embarrassed and looks past it because she loves him so much. It all starts out when Minnie is working for Miss Hilly’s Mother, Miss Walters. Minny does nothing wrong until Miss Hilly makes a rumor about her and tells everyone that Minny has been stealing from her mother. She is later fired and jobless. Aibileen is helping Minny by looking for a job, she answers a phone at Leefolts and on the phone is Celia Rae Foote. Celia is a nice, beautiful young lady in her early twenties. She’s looking for a maid, which at this point Aibileen is acting like the person Celia is asking for and she recommends Minny. Celia has never had a maid, and doesn’t know how to act around them. When they meet, Celia is afraid that her house is too much for Minny to clean. Minny thinks that it's absurd