WRITER

Miep Gies

1909 - 2010

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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 3,477,636 page views. Her biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Miep Gies is the 924th most popular writer (down from 753rd in 2019), the 227th most popular biography from Austria (down from 196th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Austrian Writer.

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

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.5M

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  • 62.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Anne Frank remembered
1987
Anne Frank Remembers
1987
Anne Frank Remembered
History
The reminiscences of Miep Gies, the woman who hid the Frank family in Amsterdam during the Second World War, presents a vivid story of life under Nazi occupation.
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Page views of Miep Gies by language

Over the past year Miep Gies has had the most page views in the with 1,290,646 views, followed by Dutch (88,105), and Spanish (80,390). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Korean (529.20%), Dutch (300.84%), and English (299.30%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Miep Gies ranks 924 out of 7,302. Before her are Božena Němcová, Thomas Wolfe, Clifford D. Simak, Jacques Clément, James May, and Jens Peter Jacobsen. After her are Lucius Accius, Vinicius de Moraes, Joost van den Vondel, Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, Ann Radcliffe, and W. G. Sebald.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Miep Gies ranks 36. Before her are Fred Perry, John Fante, Oldřich Nejedlý, Jessica Tandy, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and Edward Tatum. After her are Matt Busby, Ernst vom Rath, Leo Fender, Alain Poher, Hélder Câmara, and Vicente Feola. Among people deceased in 2010, Miep Gies ranks 32. Before her are Dino De Laurentiis, Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, Viktor Chernomyrdin, Harry Mulisch, Louise Bourgeois, and Stjepan Bobek. After her are Algirdas Brazauskas, Alice Miller, Vladimir Arnold, Henryk Górecki, Maria Kaczyńska, and Israel Tal.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Miep Gies ranks 227 out of 1,424. Before her are Maria Schell (1926), Albert IV, Duke of Austria (1377), Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria (1762), Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen (1817), Božena Němcová (1820), and Ferdinand II of Portugal (1816). After her are Bruno Kreisky (1911), Otto Bauer (1881), Oskar Potiorek (1853), Roland Ratzenberger (1960), Gustav Wagner (1911), and Otto Robert Frisch (1904).

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Among WRITERS In Austria

Among writers born in Austria, Miep Gies ranks 21. Before her are Walther von der Vogelweide (1170), Otto of Freising (1114), Klaus Ebner (1964), Franz Grillparzer (1791), Ingeborg Bachmann (1926), and Božena Němcová (1820). After her are August Kubizek (1888), Christine Nöstlinger (1936), Ida Laura Pfeiffer (1797), Joseph Mohr (1792), Vicki Baum (1888), and Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall (1774).

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