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Where did miep gies work?
Miep Gies worked as Otto Frank's assistant in his office.
Did Miep Gies work?
She herself did work, for the Complaints and Information desk in Opekta. She helped her husband, who worked for Otto Frank, hide the Franks.
When did Miep start to work for Otto Frank?
in 1969. sickoo?
Who helped Anne Frank's family?
Victor Kugler, Johannes Kleiman, Miep Gies, and Bep Voskuijl were the only employees who knew of the people in hiding, and with Gies's husband Jan Gies and Voskuijl's father Johannes Hendrik Voskuijl, were their "helpers" for the duration of their confinement. These contacts provided the only connection between the outside world and the occupants of the house, and they kept the occupants informed of war news and political developments. They catered for all of their needs, ensured their safety and supplied them with food, a task that grew more difficult with the passage of time. Anne wrote of their dedication and of their efforts to boost morale within the household during the most dangerous of times. All were aware that if caught they could face the death penalty for sheltering Jews.Miep Gies, saved Anne Frank's diary without reading it. She later said that if she had read it, she would have needed to destroy it, as it contained a great deal of incriminating information. She and her husband Jan took Otto Frank into their home where he lived from 1945 until 1952. In 1994 she received the "Order of Merit" of the Federal Republic of Germany, and in 1995 received the highest honour from the Yad Vashem, the Righteous Among the Nations. She was appointed a "Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau" by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. In 1996 she shared an Academy Award with Jon Blair for their documentary Anne Frank Remembered, based largely on her book of the same title. She also wrote the afterward for the Melissa Müller biography of Anne Frank. She has stated that each year she continues to spend the entire day of 4 August in mourning, the date those in the Annexe were arrested. On February 15, 2009, Miep Gies celebrated her 100th birthday at her home in Amsterdam. According to her son Paul, she is in good health for her age, and still follows daily news broadcasts faithfully.Jan Gies, husband of Miep, was a social worker, and was also, for part of the war, a member of the Dutch Underground, and thus was able to procure things for the people in the annexe that would have been almost impossible to obtain any other way. Jan died of complications from diabetes on 26 January 1993 in Amsterdam.Johannes Kleiman spent about six weeks in a work camp after his arrest, and was released after intervention from the Red Cross because of his fragile health. He returned to Opekta, and took over the firm when Otto Frank moved to Basel in 1952. He died in 1959 at his office desk, at the age of sixty-three.Victor Kugler spent seven months in various work camps, and escaped in March, 1945 when the prisoner march he was on that day was strafed by British Spitfires. Working his way back to his hometown of Hilversum on foot and by bicycle, he remained in hiding there until liberated by Canadian troops. After his wife died, he emigrated to Canada in 1955 (where several of his relatives already lived) and resided in Toronto. He received the "Medal of the Righteous" from Yad Vashem Memorial, with a tree planted in his honour on the Boulevard of the Righteous Among the Nations in 1973. He died 16 December 1981 in Toronto, after a long illness, at the age of eighty-one.Bep Voskuijl left Opekta shortly after the war and married in 1946. While she did grant an interview to a Dutch magazine some years after the war, she mostly shunned publicity. However, Bep did keep her own scrapbook of Anne-related articles throughout her life, and she named her own daughter "Anne Marie", in honor of Anne. She died in Amsterdam on 6 May 1983.Johannes Hendrik Voskuijl (father of Bep) was lauded constantly by the eight in hiding as a tremendous help with all matters during their early days in the achterhuis. However, his ill health was often mentioned by Anne in her diary, and he became incapacitated after a diagnosis of cancer. He died of the disease in late November, 1945.
How did the couple who were hiding Anne Frank survive?
Miep and Jan Gies were not Jewish, so they didn't have to fear being arrested and deported because of their religion. Jan was a social worker with the City of Amsterdam, while Miep was a secretary with the company once owned by Otto Frank. When the Gestapo raided the Secret Annex, Miep could have been arrested for hiding them. She was spared only because she was from the same country (Vienna) as the arresting officer. Jan, who secretly worked with the Resistance, had been in danger of arrest for some time. After the occupants of the Secret Annex were taken away, he stopped his Resistance work for safety reasons. Miep revealed in her memoir that she and Jan had also hidden a young Jewish man in their home for a while.
What job did Otto Frank do for a living?
If you are talking about when they moved to Amsterdam, then he was a director of the Dutch branch of a company that produced a type of gelling agent that was used to make jam. Other than that i have no idea.
How do you pronounce 263 Prinsengracht?
Now the address belongs to a museum devoted to the secret annex. It was an office building where Otto Frank's Opekta company worked. When Margot was sent a letter enforcing her to go to a work camp, their family hid in some unused rooms and were helped by four employees. Eventually, family Friends, the van Pels (van Daan in the diary) came into hiding as well. Fritz Pfeffer hid and got his hiding place through Miep Gies, who he was a dentist for. The Anne Frank House still stands and can be visited.
Was the annex in the franks home?
No. It was above the office building where Otto Frank used to work.
What concentration camp did Otto frank have to go to?
Anne Frank was sent to Westerbork, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen.Margot Frank - as Anne Frank.Otto Frank was sent to Westerbork and Auschwitz.Edith Frank - as Otto Frank.
What song does Otto Frank Anne's father hear in 1932 as he comes home from work?
When Otto Frank comes home from work in 1932 the song her hears is unspecified. The song is from his youth.
What was the secret annex used for before World War 2?
otto frank had a buisness there it was just used for work
Who is Charlotte Koletta from Anne Frank?
Charlotta Koletta was the girlfriend of Secret Annex resident, the dentist Dr. Dussel. The pair had fled Germany some years earlier. Although they presented themselves as a married couple, they were not. Charlotta was a Christian, and the laws forbade her to marry the Jewish dentist. After Dr. Dussel went into hiding with the Franks, Charlotta sent him care packages through Miep Gies; a very dangerous thing to do. Anne mentions several times in her diary that Dussel refused to share his goodies with the rest of the Annex. Dussel died in a concentration camp in 1944. After the war, Charlotta was able to marry Dr. Dussel posthumously; Otto Frank helped her arrange this. She was then eligible to receive government payments. Dussel had a son, Peter, from his first marriage. Peter was sent to England as a child, to escape the Nazi's. He was furious that Charlotta was receiving money that he felt should go to him. He wrote Charlotta at least one hateful letter about it, and he also wrote to Mr. Frank. Otto Frank attempted to bring about a reconciliation between the two, but was not successful. Charlotta and Otto Frank were friends. Some sources indicate she had a romantic interest in him. He took her to Switzerland to meet his mother and other relatives, but the visit was not a success. She returned home angry, and their friendship cooled. When Anne's diary was published, Charlotta was furious at the many negative references to Dr. Dussel. She broke off all contact with Mr. Frank and Miep Gies. She died in 1985, leaving no know family. Her belongings were sent to a flea market, where an employee of the Secret Annexe discovered them. Included were several books belonging to Dr. Dussel, and many pictures. These items are now part of the Secret Annexe.
