Hermine Santrouschitz Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Hermine Santruschitz (15 February 1909 – 11 January 2010), better known as Miep Gies (Dutch pronunciation: [mip xis]), was one of the Dutch citizens who hid Anne Frank, her family and four other Jews from the Nazis in an annex above Anne's father's business premises during World War II. She was Austrian by birth, but in 1920, at the age of only eleven, Miep was taken in as a foster child by a Dutch family to whom she became very attached. Although she was initially only to stay for six months, this stay was extended to one year because of frail health, after which she chose to remain with them, living the rest of her life in the Netherlands. In 1933 she began working for Otto Frank, a businessman who had moved with his family from Germany to the Netherlands in hopes of sparing his family Nazi persecution because they were Jewish. Miep became a close, trusted friend of the family and was a great support to them during the two years they spent in hiding. She retrieved Anne Frank's diary after the family was arrested and kept the papers safe until Otto Frank returned from Auschwitz in 1945, and learned of his younger daughter's death. Together with Alison Leslie Gold Miep authored the book Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family, first published in 1987.
Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Movies
Anne Frank Remembered, The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank
Star Sign
Aquarius
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Fact
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She rescued Anne Frank's diary, and kept it safe until after the war when she was able to hand it over to Anne's father, Otto Frank, who survived the war, and helped him compile them into a diary that was published in 1947.
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Until her death in January 2010, she was the last survivor who helped Anne Frank, hide from the Nazis in WW2. She died of natural causes, in West-Friesland Netherlands, where she lived for years, at the age of 100. The premier of Israel, wrote an letter to Queen Beatrix, saying among other things, that it's a great loss.
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Granted the title "Righteous Among the Nations" by Yad Vashem. [1973]
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Got the first name "Miep" from her Dutch foster family
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Helped (together with her husband) several Jews during the Holocaust in World War II, including Anne Frank and her family. Is Dutch. She was born in Austria, but was sent to Holland at the age of 11 because of the bad conditions in Austria.
$700,000
