Essay on Sparking the Change: Miep Gies

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.

People can only imagine the terrors that the Jews and other ethnic groups had to go through during the Holocaust in World War II. With Anne Frank’s diary, people can finally put themselves into the scene and captivate all the feelings and sentiments that Anne Frank has poured onto the pages. Anne Frank, her family, and their friends were known for hiding from the German Nazis in the Secret Annex for two years from 1942-1944. Innocent and naive,

In Miep's book, Anne Frank Remembered, she stated ""I am not a hero. I stand at the end of the long, long line of good Dutch people who did what I did or more - much more - during those dark and terrible times years ago, but always like yesterday in the hearts of those of us who bear witness. Never a day goes by that I do not think of what happened then.""(Gies, Miep) Miep hid the Franks in a secret annex "despite threat of imprisonment, deportation, or execution."(www.annefrank.dk) She hid these Jews for more than two years, "Miep supplied them daily with provisions, including paper for Anne's diary, while her husband provided forged food coupons and links to the Dutch resistance."(Encyclopedia Britannica) During the end of the war, after the hidden Jews had been captured, Miep "preserved Anne's diary."(www.auschwitz.dz) Later, in "1987, Miep wrote a book: "Memories of Anne Frank.""(www.annefrank.com) To spread awareness of the holocaust Miep also wrote of her account with the Jews. "Miep's memoir, Anne Frank Remembered (1987), was the basis for the television movie The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank (1988) and was adapted in 1995 into an eponymous Academy Award-winning documentary."(Encyclopedia

Teri Schultz,(2010) Miep Gies acted heroically when she made the decision to help Anne Frank’s family I could foresee many, many sleepless nights and a life filled with regret if I would have refused to help the Franks

Mrs. Gies, along with her husband, helped bring the ones in hiding food, books, and news from the outside world (“Miep Gies, who hid Anne Frank, dies at 100”). She and her husband even spent one night in the annex with the rest of them. She recalled, “The fright… was so thick I could feel it pressing down on me” (“Miep Gies Biography”). After a little over two years of hiding, the people in the annex were discovered because someone betrayed them, and it is still unknown who betrayed them. They were all taken to concentration camps.

She was providing income for the business and kept a lot of attention away from the building. On August 4, 1944, after two years of hiding the family, the secret annex was raided by Nazis and everyone in the annex was sent to concentration camps. Miep returned to the annex to find no one there and the apartment a complete wreck. While she was searching through the mess she found Anne Frank's diary laying on the floor. Miep then grabbed the diary and kept it for when and if the family ever returned. The only person who returned was Otto Frank. He was the only survivor of the Frank family and when Miep heard this she soon gave him Anne’s diary. Otto Frank was very appreciative of Miep when he got the diary. He felt as if he had a piece of Anne still with him and was very grateful that Miep had saved it for him. Otto and Miep were convinced they had to get the diaries published. They never rested until the diaries were published and in 1947 that is exactly what happened. Miep was a very humble person in the fact that she thought she was just doing her human duty by protecting all the people she did just like she says in these two quotes, “Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life,” and “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

Anne Frank and many other people lived in the Secret Annexe. they lived there for two years and were treated by the office members. one was Miep Gies.the office members were risking their lives for the Frank family and the other residents of the Secret Annexe.

About two months after moving in, a local Jewish dentist friend of Miep’s fiance, Dirk, is in trouble. He needs a hiding place, and fast. Mr. Kraler comes to ask if he could hide with them in the annex. After talking it over, they decide it’s the right thing to do. His name is Mr. Dussel. They arrange for him to room with Anne and for Margot to move in with in their parents’ room. Mr. Dussel brings them information from the outside. He tells them about how Jews are being pulled away from their homes and taken off to camps. Mr. Dussel becomes a normal residence of the annex very soon. With time he becomes more and more rude to them, and insensitive.

This article outlines gies’s childhood, work life, life during the war, and her published book. It includes detailed stories about the events that took place in her life. She learned her caring and helpful ways from a family that took her in as a part a program that helped rescue the children of austrian workers. The family nursed Gies back to health and also gave her the nickname “miep”. In her early 20’s Gies got an office job, but was later fired when she was 24. Gies loved to work and she got another opportunity to do so when she saw a newspaper ad for an office job. She was interviewed by Otto frank, she latter got the job as the head of the information desk. Over time gies became close with the frank family. One day Gies heard that

You can help someone in need just by showing them a smile. This is what Miep Gies did for the entire Frank family, and the other members of the annex household, which we only know about because of Anne Frank’s diary. Her diary became a play, The Diary of Anne Frank, written by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett. The Franks were a Jewish family that lived during the Holocaust, a horrific time in Europe when millions of Jews were slaughtered because of their religion. But overall, Miep Gies shows the events of the war through a

The holocaust was a very deadly time for Jews and even for some others, but Miep Gies made it a lot easier for the people. Miep Gies is a strong women who helped hide and protect as many Jews as she could, while hiding the Jews it was risky and challenging. Throughout Miep's life after the holocaust, she wrote a book about her experiences of the holocaust. The book she wrote was called Anne Frank Remembered. In this book Miep showed how challenging and risky it was to hide Jews during the holocaust because of how hard it was to get enough food for the people in hiding, finding places for people to hide at, and for the people in hiding to live in the same place for a long time.

The big thing is that Miep isn’t supposed to help Jews in the first place. If she is found helping Jew she’d be killed with them. This act is a sign that she cares about the Franks,Van Daans,and Dussel.

Approximately 6 million Jews were killed during an inhumane event in history, The Holocaust. Men, women, children, and elders were victims of this atrocious event, “The Final Solution.” Hitler wanted the Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals, the mentally ill, and physically disabled, to be exterminated from Germany to make the “perfect race”. Miep Gies is an amazing woman and hero for risking her life to hide Jews in her workplace and to keep quiet. She is a hero because she kept quiet, turned down any opportunities that had to do with Nazi, replenished them with not only food and news, but with hope and friendliness.

“How wonderful it is that nobody needs to wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” The Diary of Anne Frank tells the illustrious story of a young Jewish girl hiding from Nazis during Hitler’s third reich. Through the influential voice of Anne Frank and her unrelenting positivity, this eloquent play drives its readers to enjoy life rather than endure it.

In the last scene (scene 5) after Anne Frank and her family are caught, Miep says, “I’d gone to the country to find food. When i got back the block was surrounded by police…” In the real event, Miep never went to get food. She was downstairs in the building Anne Frank and her family were hiding in. The only reason she did not get taken away by the police was that she and the police had a past relationship.