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Miep Gies

Miep Gies. By: Anabel Brooks. Her place in The Holocaust. Miep Gies played an important part in The Holocaust, she is very famous for hiding Jews such as Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis.

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Miep Gies

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  1. Miep Gies By: Anabel Brooks

  2. Her place in The Holocaust • Miep Gies played an important part in The Holocaust, she is very famous for hiding Jews such as Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis. • In 1944 she was rewarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, she also received the Wallenberg Medal from the University of Michigan along with many others.

  3. Her early life-

  4. Her Early Life- • She was Born on February 15, 1909 in Vienna, she was the transported to Leiden from Vienna in December 1920. • She was taken in as a foster daughter by The Nieuwenburg family and the gave her the name Miep, which is what she is known as now. • She moved to Amsterdam in 1922. • In 1933, she applied for the post of a temporary secretary, that is where she Mr. Otto Frank.

  5. Hiding the families-

  6. Hiding the Families- • With the help of her husband and other employees, Miep was able to hide the families safely in the upstairs rooms of the company office building. • The Families she hid were The Franks(Anne Frank), The Van Pels, and Fritz Pfeffer. They all were hiding together in the upstairs rooms of the building.

  7. The Capture and Afterward

  8. The Capture • Miep was at her desk working in August of 1944 when a man pointed a gun at her head and told her not to move. • The families were taken away by the green police. • Miep tried to buy them back with money, but she did not succeed. • For the rest of the war, Miep was safe. When the war was over, Mr. Otto Frank returned as the only one who had survived out of the people hiding there. • Miep had been holding on to Anne’s Diary for her, but gave it to Mr. Frank when she had learned she had died.

  9. Afterward • Anne’s Diary was published in 1947 and sold millions of copies. • Miep Gies lived to be 100 and died on January 11, 2010. • She lived a long, wonderful life, and people everywhere are still learning about the amazing things she did to hide The Franks and others.

  10. Sources! • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miep_Gies • http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Miep_Gies.html • http://www.google.com/search?q=miep+gies&hl=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=yTg_UZWSO5CK9ATwxoGICQ&sqi=2&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=678&surl=1&safe=active

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