Miep+Giess

What happened to Miep?

==== After the arrest of the members of the "Secret Annex," Miep was left to keep Mr. Frank's business going. After the liberation of the camps, Mr. Frank returned to Miep, still carrying the hope with him that his daughters would have made it out alive. She then gave him the diary Anne had written referring to it as "the legacy" of his daughter. [|Meip's Website] ====

[] **-Hina Ishaque**
 * Miep along with the other helpers could have been executed if they had been caught hiding Jews but Miep was not arrested because the police officer who came to interrogate her was from Vienna, Miep's birth-town. During and after the war nothing happened to her apart from the heartbreak of losing her friends so close to the end of the war. Miep kept Anne's diary in her desk drawer and returned it to Otto Frank without reading it after the war. She said if she had read it, she would have to destroy it since it contained the names of everyone helping to hide the families. She did evetually read the diary after Otto Frank published the second printing. **
 * Source: @http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miep_Gies **
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 * 1.After Anne's death Miep spent almost her entire life trying to keep the memory of her fresh in peoples' minds by responding to letters and giving speeches to large crowds. **
 * 2.Miep recieved the great honor of being knighted by the Queen of the Netherlands for her courageous acts. **

Hermine Santrouschitz was born in Vienna, Austria in February 15, 1909. She suffered from tuberculosis and malnutrition and is sent by her parents to the Netherlands with other children to heal in 1920. There, her foster family gives her the name Miep. She likes it in the Netherlands so much that she wanted to stay there. Her parents give her permission seeing how enthusiastic she was. She lives there for her entire life, marries Jan Gies there (which is how she got her last name), and then dies in January 11, 2010 at the age of 100. -Kevin Cadavillo, Period 5 []

Miep has risked her life to illegally take care of the Franks and four other friends in the Secret Annex. Miep has also tried to comfort everybody after Annes death. Therefore, Miep was very helpful. She was born on Febuary 15 in Vienna, which eventually fell to her death, in the Netherlands, which was January 11, 2010. Rest in peace.... Miep has been buried at the Yad Vashem graveyard. Before Miep died, Miep was just an ordinary woman who thought that all of her mates in the Annex were very brave. - Nargis Chogle, Pd 6/7 []

The last time Miep saw Anne, before the capture, was on the very same day at 9:00 in the morning.The police came around 11:00.(Neethu P. Period 5) http://teacher.scholastic.com/frank/tscripts/miep.htm

Miep has also helped a non-Jewish student who was wanted by the Germans by hiding the person in her house. Later, that person went to America. (Neethu P.Period 5) http://teacher.scholastic.com/frank/tscripts/miep.htm

Miep also received several medallions and an honorary Ph.D. (Neethu P. Period 5) []

Instead of reading the diary Miep left it in her drawer of her desk and kept it so that it does not fall in german hands. [] { Alondra Hernandez period 3/4]

Nathanael Martin Miep worked in "Travies and Company", a company that conveyed food and products for architects and homemakers. []

Miep was baptized Catholic at birth. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_was_Miep_Gies%27_religion -Pam D