Miep Gies
“We did our duty as human beings: helping people in need.” Miep Gies said this about helping Anne Frank’s family. Miep was the one that brought the Frank family food by risking her life. She was born in 1909 and died in 2010, just 2 months before she turned 101. She accomplished many things in her life and she never stopped trying to tell Anne Frank’s story. Miep Gies was helpful, loyal, and compassionate and without her, no one would know know the Frank’s story.
Miep did everything in her power to keep the Franks in hiding. She couldn't bring then a lot of food, so she went to different food markets at random parts of the day so she wasn't carrying too many bags at once(Holocaust). While Otto was gone from his business, Miep helped keep all the workers in line and away from the annex as much as possible. She helped them in ways no one else would.
Miep was very loyal to the Franks. She didn't even tell her own foster parents about how she was helping the Franks. Even after they were taken she still remained loyal. She went to the police station to try to bail
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them out. In an interview, Miep said,” My decision to help Otto was because I saw no alternative. I could foresee my sleepless nights and an unhappy life if I refused.” (Interview) No one was more loyal to the Franks than Miep. If Miep wasn't compassionate, Anne wouldn't have paper to write her diary.
Miep knew that Anne loved to write and so she gave her paper every day. Also, Miep and her husband at the time decided to stay in the annex with all of them. Miep wanted to see what they were going through because she felt so bad for the Franks. In an interview Miep says,”Spending that night in the hiding place, together with my husband, opened my eyes for the awful position of my friends. To live with eight people in such a small place, never being allowed to go out, never being able to talk to friends and always fearing the coming of the police.” (Interview) She had so much compassion for her friends that she did all these things. After the Franks were captured and sent to concentration camps, Miep went up to the annex to get their things so if they did come back, they would have their belongings. She even kept Anne’s
diary. Miep Gies was all these things and more. She helped 8 people stay in hiding for almost 3 years. She risked her life and the life of her husband everyday. Never once did she doubt what she was doing. She was a helpful, loyal, and a compassionate woman that was also brave and confident in what she believed in.
In the beginning of the story, two characters, Miep and Mr. Kraler, showed how they were very good at heart. Both of them helped all the families in the annex and were loyal and unselfish. Miep and Mr. Kraler tried their best to help the families live and survive the war. They brought them food, news, supplies, and kept them secret and safe throughout the story. They also kept Mr. Frank’s store running. “ Miep or I, or both of us, will be up each day to bring you food and news and find out what our needs are.” This piece of evidence explains how they helped the Franks, Van Daans, and Mr. Dussel. Miep and Mr. Kraler were good at heart because they took others needs before theirs and risked their
Miep was not being a hero figure because she didn’t care about any of that. She only cared about getting them food and making sure their ok. She risked getting caught and sent to prison and who knows maybe they would have taken her to a concentration camp. They felt like they were being kind in helping them because it's not like they were forced to do it but that they did it because they wanted to.i would have done the same even though i could have been arrested I still would have done it because i would have been helping people for the right
Again, it is November of 1945. It is the same setting as the beginning of the play. Miep and Mr. Frank share information. Miep and Mr. Kraler claim they were out in the country when they were taken in search of food. Mr Frank shares about how they were all separated to different camps. Everyone but Mr. Frank had perished at one of the camps. Mr. Frank reads a line from the diary. Anne wrote that in spite of everything, she still believes that people are good at heart. Mr. Frank says that she puts him to shame, and the curtain falls.
In the essay, the author points out that most of the other Jewish families who did decide to go into hiding did so separately, so if one family member were to get caught, the others still might have a chance. As Bettelheim points out that the chief desire of the Franks was to continue to live together as if they were free, in the same manner that they had been living in. At the time when I was reading The Diary of Anne Frank, I had never thought that there was any other way that they could have lived. I never once considered that they should split up.
The way that the story is told differs in the play and the movie. In the play, it begins with Mr. Frank walking through the annex after returning from the concentration camp while talking to Miep about wanting to leave, when Miep hands Mr. Frank Anne’s diary, and the story is told through a flashback. In the movie version of The Diary Of Anne Frank the story starts with them walking in the rain at night going to the annex to go into hiding, after this you learn why they are going
The documentary, “Dear Kitty” revolves around Miep Gies, and her recollection of helping Anne Frank and her family go into hiding. Miep, was a dutch citizen who was hired by Anne’s father, Otto Frank. In the summer of 1942, Mr. Frank had initially hired Miep to be the secretary of the business he managed, but with the Nazis ceasing all the Jews from Holland, he would soon need her help with hiding his family. Miep, along with the other four staff members, agreed to help. The Frank family hid in an attic above the business where both Miep and Mr Frank worked at. Miep and the rest of the workers acted normal during regular work hours so they would not look suspicious. Unfortunately, Anne and her family, besides her father, were found and taken
On July 16, 1941, Miep married Jan Gies, and she officially became a Dutch citizen the same day. The following year in June, Mr. Frank and his family, along with a small family called the van Pels, went into hiding. ...
Anne Frank was a 13-year-old Jewish girl who was thrown into one of the worst periods in the history of the world; the Holocaust. Though she went through awful things that many people will never experience, she always kept the faith that there was still some good in everyone. She once said, “Despite everything I still believe people are truly good at heart.” Her diary, which she kept while her family was in hiding from the Nazis, shows the triumph of her spirit over the evil in the world even through the pain of adolescence. The Franks and Van Dans were hiding and they suffered many hardships, mentally and physically. Many people in Anne’s situation would have become bitter and resentful, but Anne never would despair.
Throughout the holocaust, many Jews survived by going into hiding to escape the harsh fates and realities that would otherwise await the opressed. The Diary of a Young Girl allows readers to witness and experience a small idea of what Jews in hiding during the holocaust suffered. Some may have lost one's life, but Otto Frank, Anne's Frank's father, survived the holocaust through hiding. The secret annex became the shelter for Otto Frank, his family, and several others Jews starting July sixth, 1942(www.annefrank.org). The annex provided a barrier from the Nazis and death camps for two years before the Gestapo discovered the Franks and others and sent the Jews to concentration camps for the remainder of the holocaust(www.ushmm.org). The others in hiding with Frank lost their lives, leaving Otto Frank the sole survivor from the secret annex. His time in hiding happened to save his life, making him a survivor of the holocaust(www.ushmm.org).
Anne's optimistic personality created the hope that she had for her future. Each day she could do nothing but just hope that one day everything will turn around and be better. In The Diary Of Anne Frank play, she expressed, "It'll pass, maybe not for hundreds of years, but someday..." Deep down inside, she had the hope that all of the disgusting things that Hitler alongside his army performed, would all vanish one day. She knew for the most part that the hatred may never go away, but imagining that it might, made things at least a bit better. Anne's situation was pure negativity, with almost nothing good about it. The only good thing that may have come out of it for her were the relationships that she created with everyone in hiding with her. From the Van Daans, to Miep, she bonded amazing friendships with each person involved. Aside from that, Anne's personality stuck out more than anyone's because of the hope that she had, in such a terrible situation.
After the war Anne’s father, the only one in their family that survived, received Anne’s diary from Miep, the caretaker of the families while they were hiding. One of the most eye catching quotes from Anne’s was” I believe people are really good at heart”, I believe Anne when she says that. I agree with Anne because a lot of people hid Jews during the Holocaust. Miep and Mr. Kraler help the Frank, Van Daan, and Miep’s dentist, Mr. Dussel during the Holocaust. They hid them, even though she knew it was against the law.
What makes Miep Gies a hero? Miep Gies a 86 year old woman who saved Anne Frank's famous diary in the New York times article about New York. The woman who saved a diary of a young girl. The author discussed the life of Miep Gies.
First of all Miep became a rescuer by protecting the Frank family. She started working for Mr. Frank as his secretary. Shortly after working for Mr. Frank in Frankfurt, Germany: “Miep became a trusted employee and friend of the Frank family and joined in its alarm over the persecution of the German Jews” (“Meip Gies”). Miep was a heavily trusted friend with the Frank family during the persecution of the Jews. She helped them with whatever they needed to keep them together. When the S.S. officers were looking for Jews: “ Miep agreed to be a ‘helper’ bringing them food that she would gather from different grocers with illegal ration cards her husband had procured as part of the Dutch resistance” (“Miep Gies”). Miep helped supply with necessary items for the Frank family though it was illegal.
Gies' motivation for helping Jewish families during World War II was endless and inspirational to all. Although the heroic Miep Gies said she did not like being called a hero and she had done nothing extraordinary, the truth is that she put her life on the line for the Frank family. She began by saying "... I'm just a very common person. I simply had no choice." Miep saw herself as another ordinary person and thought that a human helping out another human was a task that was normal and almost obligatory. But, because she thought so little of herself, she believed she could take on the challenge. Moreover, she stated that "if people are allowed to think it takes remarkable qualities to act boldly on behalf of others, few will attempt it."
In the movie, Freedom Writers, the students of room 203 raised money for Miep Gies, the woman who helped hide Anne Frank, to come and speak at their school. When she arrived, the students were in awe of her bravery and courage, one even claimed she was a hero, however, she rebutted and said, “‘You are heroes every day’”. She was trying to convey to the students that her actions, while monumental now, were simply her doing the right thing. Whereas everyday Ms. Gruwell's students were fighting in an undeclared war, in which they were constantly fighting for their life to overcome the and they had been dealt in life, much like Anne Frank. This is what Miep Gies was trying to show by saying they were the heroes, their actions required them to rise