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    Miep Gies

    Dutch citizen who hid Anne Frank (1909–2010)

    Miep Gies

    Gies in 1987

    Born

    Hermine Santrouschitz


    15 February 1909

    Vienna, Austria-Hungary

    Died11 January 2010(2010-01-11) (aged 100)

    Hoorn, Netherlands

    Known forHiding Dutch Jews, including Anne Frank and her family, from the Nazis; keeping Anne's diary
    Spouse

    Jan Gies

    (m. 1941; died 1993)​
    Children1
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    Hermine "Miep" Gies (Dutch:[mipˈxis];[a]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 foste