1. Biography and Connection to The Holocaust/Anne Frank
Miep Gies
Biography and Connection to The Holocaust/Anne Frank

2. Biography Born – Feb. 15, 1909 – Vienna, Austria
In 1920 – Moved to Netherlands (Holland)

4. 1933 – Met Otto Frank

5. 1941 – Married Jan Gies

6. July 1942- August 1944 – Helped to hide the Frank Family
1950 – Son Paul Born

7. Has received many awards
1997 – Knighted by Queen of Austria
2009 – Celebrated her 100th birthday

8. Connection to Anne Frank
Request for Help – “Yes, of course.”
The Frank Family: Otto, Edith, Margot & Anne

9. The Van Pels Family :Hermann, Augusta & Peter

10. Fritz Pfeffer

11. The Helpers: Johannes Klein, Victor Kugler and Bep Voskuijl

12. The Secret Annex

14. Helping Supplies – essentials and non-essentials Information
Emotional Support
Risk – Prison Camp, deportation, death

15. The Diary Finds and protects diary – August 1944 Gives to Otto
Publishing – 1947
Speaker: “We were not heroes. We did our duty as human beings”
Book – Anne Frank Remembered
Died Jan. 11, 2010
100 Years Old