Miep Gies

Miep Gies

Hermine "Miep" Gies (Dutch: [mip ˈxis]; née Santrouschitz; 15 February 1909 – 11 January 2010) was one of the Dutch citizens who hid Anne Frank, her family (Otto Frank, Margot Frank, Edith Frank) and four other Dutch Jews (Fritz Pfeffer, Hermann van Pels, Auguste van Pels, Peter van Pels) from the Nazis in an annex above Otto Frank's business premises during World War II. She was Austrian by birth, but in 1920, at the age of eleven, she was taken in as a foster child by a Dutch family in Leiden to whom she became very attached. Although she was only supposed to stay for six months, this stay was extended to one year because of frail health, after which Gies chose to remain with them, living the rest of her life in the Netherlands. In 1933, Gies began working for Otto Frank, a Jewish businessman who had moved with his family from Germany to the Netherlands in the hope of sparing his family from Nazi persecution. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Miep Gies has received more than 3,517,974 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia. Miep Gies is the 754th most popular writer (up from 861st in 2019), the 196th most popular biography from Austria (up from 198th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Austrian Writer.

Miep Gies was a Dutch woman who helped hide Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis.