Miep and Jan Gies with plaque, 1987. Miep and Jan Gies were recognised as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem on 8 March 1972. [19] In 1994, Gies was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany as well as the Wallenberg Medal by the University of …

2010年1月11日 · Miep had met Jan Gies in her first job. The two got romantically involved and on 16 July 1941, in the second year of war, the couple married. At that point, Jan was working as a social worker with Social Services of the municipality of Amsterdam.

1993年1月26日 · Jan Gies was Miep’s husband. Although he was not employed at Otto Frank's company, he was involved as a member of the Supervisory Board and was one of the helpers of the people in hiding. He could often be found in the Secret Annex and provided books and distribution coupons.

Jan Augustus Gies (Dutch pronunciation: [jɑŋ ˈɣis]; [a] 18 August 1905 – 26 January 1993) was a member of the Dutch Resistance who, with his wife, Miep, helped hide Anne Frank, her sister Margot, their parents Otto and Edith, the van Pels family, and Fritz Pfeffer from Nazi persecution during the occupation of the Netherlands by aiding ...

In early 1947 Miep, Jan and Otto moved again, now to Jekerstraat 65, where they moved in with a friend of Jan's who had recently become a widower. Although Otto Frank had many friends and contacts and could also have started living or staying elsewhere, he preferred to …

Miep and Jan Gies, fall of 1985, in Amsterdam While the Germans surged through most of Europe like a tidal wave, life in Amsterdam seemed to continue much as before. It was a beautiful summer and Miep and Jan were happy. But as autumn approached, the directives targeting Jews gradually became more in number and graver in scope.

Miep Gies and Jan Gies were in fact a real-life Dutch couple and much of A Small Light is based on Miep's 1987 autobiography Anne Frank Remembered and the 1995 documentary based...

2023年5月12日 · Soon after the SS arrested Anne Frank on August 4, 1944, Miep Gies —one of the helpers who’d hidden the young girl from the Nazis for the past two years—snuck back into her room to see what...