Why Is Miep Gies A Hero

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

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

Miep Gies risked her life many times to help the Frank family during the two years they hid from the Nazis in a secret place built into the Trading Company office in Amsterdam where she’d worked for Otto Frank almost ten years.

Most people dream to be a hero, a hero that is admired, courageous, noble, and a role model to everyone because of what they have achieved. Everyone’s point of view of being a hero is different, some might state that being a hero means solving crimes and wears capes like all superhero in movies. The others might say that a hero is a soldier that fights for their country. Peter Brownrigg, a fourteen-year-old Cumberland farm boy is a hero that does not wear a cape. Peter’s acts of determination and outstanding bravery pushes him to defeat Sir Philip Morton and his followers in their objective to assassinate the queen of England in the story Cue for Treason by Geoffrey Trease.

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

with respect and understanding.” This quote also shows evidence that she was a hero by the reason behind why she helped people. Well besides the fact that she didn’t like the way Jews were being treated. She needed to respect people and treat them the way she wanted to be treated.

Miep Gies had a large impact on Anne Frank for a fearful, two years, although, Miep regarded the risky actions she would have to do for the Franks, “I don't want to be considered a hero”(Miep, About Miep Gies) ,but I have faith that her considerate thoughts were true and she helped let the family stay safe for as long as she could which, is very heroic in my book. She spent many tiresome days helping the family, while trying to sustain the family of her own, “I had to buy food in the "black" market. My husband Jan also helped by providing me with so-called ration cards he had obtained illegally.” (Miep, Hiding the Franks), these sacrifices are one many people would fear to take on but Miep took the family as her responsibility. Miep spent

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,

Cromwell was at the height of power, religious success and continued to have a tight hold on his master King Henry VIII. After the death of Henry’s third wife Jane Seymour, Cromwell advised a new political marriage for the king. To pursue his own advantage and build Protestant connections in Europe, Cromwell suggested the king take a German bride. This would also aid Cromwell against anti-Cromwell factions and nobilities, due to the potential bride being an outsider rather than English noblewomen. Cromwell finally found success in the Duke of Cleves sister Anne. Henry, eager to marry once again, sent his artist to paint her portrait, determined to have a beautiful wife. Henry received her portrait and approved of the young Anne of Cleves, she soon set sail for England, an enormous accomplishment for Cromwell’s domestic and foreign policy. Henry titled Cromwell earl of Essex on 18

The Diary of Anne Frank is a remarkably moving book about the short life of a young girl and her family. The Holocaust was a horrible time for Jewish people and Anne and her Jewish family’s lives were completely turned upside down as a result. The war resulted in the deaths of countless people, mostly innocent people. Before the invasion on D-day and the end of the war not too long after, the rest of the world didn’t know the real disaster going on over seas. Anne Frank’s once secret diary has introduced the immense suffering and horror that occurred during the Holocaust.

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