Miep came to know and love Holland as if it were her native home, and came to identify as Dutch rather than Viennese. The program sent her to Amsterdam, and put her up for adoption by a Dutch family. During that year, she was inducted into a program that aided sick and malnourished children. Born in Vienna, Austria to a long line of Austrians, she lived in an impoverished family with her mother and father until she was eleven. Miep begins her autobiography by briefly visiting her childhood. Lacking a central point or resolution for the tragedy, Miep’s book turns mainly to the lived experience of the Holocaust, returning to a number of views which vigorously oppose the Nazis and wider Europe’s persecution of the Jewish people. These families include the famous Frank family, of which the young Anne wrote the journal that would later be published, posthumously, as The Diary of Anne Frank. The book chronicles the persecution of Jews in the Netherlands, including Gies’ own accounts of the various sanctuaries she observed or facilitated as some of the Dutch people took humanitarian action against Hitler’s atrocities. Anne Frank: Remembered is an autobiography by Miep Gies, the woman who housed the Frank family in secret during the Nazi regime’s extermination of the Jewish people during World War II.
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