This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. I don’t know exactly how they’re going to do it in this series, but when Otto Frank asked Miep to help . Many, what I didn't know was how Ann and her family came to be in the Attic and who would sacrifice so much, their lives, to hide them. Slowly starting and then increasing rules about what Jewish people could and couldn’t do until it came to the point where they were taking them from their homes and sending them away to concentration camps. Miep, still an Austrian citizen, had married the Dutchman the year before the Franks went into hiding in secret rooms within the Opekta office building.

The woman who is nicknamed Miep briefly touches on her childhood of being adopted by a Dutch family out of her Austrian home due to malnourishment, though not a direct fault of her biological family. Miep claims she was only doing what any decent person would do—and there were many unsung heroes of the Holocaust—but she went far above and beyond to protect them. The men arrested the eight people in hiding, as well as Kugler and Kleiman, but left Gies and Voskuijl behind.But there were thousands of others throughout Europe who risked their own lives to save Jews from the Nazis and their horrific campaign of obliteration that was the Holocaust. Jan, Gold adds, was “like a double trouble, because you don’t even know what else he did—and you’ll never know [because] he was too modest to even tell anyone much of anything. It was pitch-black, the middle of the night, when the train stopped and we were shaken awake and led off the train. Her inspiring story shows how ordinary people can act with tremendous courage in extraordinary times.

Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Gies was interviewed about her memories of hiding the Frank family for the 1995 documentary film Anne Frank Remembered by Jon Blair. Miep Gies furthermore describes several events and statements made following the release of the first edition. The question of how the Nazis found the hiding place and who, if anyone, betrayed the people in hiding is the subject of much debate. But then, on Friday morning 4 August 1944, Dutch police officers, headed by SS-Hauptscharführer Karl Josef Silberbauer, unexpectedly raided Prinsengracht 263.Neuware - For the millions moved by Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, here is Miep Gies's own astonishing story. Born in Vienna, Austria, to Karoline Maria Santrouschitz, [10] [11] Gies was sent to Leiden from Vienna in December 1920 to escape the food shortages prevailing in Austria after World War I. It was at this moment that Jan and I were truly glad that we had let Alison persuade us to tell our story,” the Dutch centenarian continued. Neither one came back to live with us, so by the time the war ended I lived with just Mother, Father, and Grandmother.