Miep Gies

For use in teaching literature to high school students. Miep Gies, her husband, and a few loyal friends hid the Frank family from the Nazis for more than two years. Here she recounts her own childhood as a refugee during World War I, the daily risks she took while hiding and supporting the Franks, and the moment she handed Otto Frank his daughter's diary. It is a stirring and honest account and an important document of the struggle for human rights.

She found Anne Frank's diary and brought the world a message of love and hope. For more than two years, Miep Gies and her husband helped hide the Franks from the Nazis. Like thousands of unsung heroes of the Holocaust, they risked their lives each day to bring food, news, and emotional support to the victims. From her own remarkable childhood as a World War I refugee to the moment she places a small, red-orange, checkered diary -- Anne's legacy -- in Otto Frank's hands, Miep Gies remembers her days with simple honesty and shattering clarity. Each page rings with courage and heartbreaking beauty. - Publisher.

Since its initial publication forty years ago The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank has become a modern classic. Now, for the first time, we learn another side of the Anne Frank story in this moving book, the autobiography of Miep Gies, the woman who helped to hide the Frank family. Miep's relationship with the Franks began when she came to work for Anne's father in 1933, shortly after he emigrated from Germany to Amsterdam to escape the Nazis. Following the wartime German occupation of the Netherlands and the increasingly harsh measures the Nazis imposed on Dutch Jews, the Frank family decided to go into hiding in 1942. Along with her husband, Jan, Miep became one of the Franks' key links to the outside world, supplying food, news, and emotional support -- at great personal risk -- for more than two years. - Jacket flap.