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    Miep Gies

    Dutch citizen who hid Anne Frank (–)

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    Born

    Hermine Santrouschitz


    15 February

    Vienna, Austria-Hungary

    Died11 January () (aged&#;)

    Hoorn, Netherlands

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

    Jan Gies

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    Hermine "Miep" Gies (Dutch:[mipˈxis];[a]née&#;Santrouschitz; 15 February – 11 January ) 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 , at the age of eleven, she was taken in as a foster child by a Dutch family in Leiden to whom she became very attached. Although she was only s