Miep Gies worked for Otto Frank (Anne’s father) in Amsterdam when the Nazis invaded. Miep was a friend to Otto and his entire family, so she and her husband “Henk” (Anne’s pseudonym for him; his name was actually Jan) didn’t hesitate to hide them on the upper floors of their office and help them out with daily visits, food, and anything they could do to help. This book recounts Miep’s story during this time.

This was very good. I listened to the audio and only occasionally did I miss something because my mind wandered. Miep and Jan helped other Jewish friends, as well. In addition to the other family and the dentist who were in hiding with the Franks, they held on to items (as well as a neighbours’ cat) belonging to Jewish friends in hopes they would one day return and be able to get those items back.

There was biographical information about Miep herself before we got to the Franks’ going into hiding. It was interesting to see the difficulties that Miep went through to help. The “story” included updates (of many people/neighours mentioned) after the war. Otto, of course, came home, but the rest of the family did not, though it was a while before they knew the fates of Anne and her sister Margot. There were a couple of “afterwords”; the last one being a later edition just before Miep turned 100 years old.

I can’t believe I’ve waited so long to read this account. The Diary of a Young Girl is my favorite book, and this I consider to be an essential companion piece. It makes me want to read Anne’s account again.

Que livro espectacular!
Mies Gies foi uma das pessoas que ajudou a esconder Anne Frank e os restantes habitantes do "anexo" e conta-nos a sua história, não só o seu percurso de vida mas também durante o período da 2ª Guerra Mundial.
Um livro de leitura obrigatória!

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Anne Frank Remembered by Miep Gies & Alison Leslie Gold
Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

5 stars

The story of Anne Frank has been told for many decades and is one that resonates with a lot of young people. Anne’s story of survival in the Annex of her father’s business along with her family, another family, and a doctor is famous for being a story of growth and hope. The world outside of the small prison keeping the Franks safe was horrifying and wrought with murder, starvation, and abuse. Miep Gies was one of the people who helped hide the Franks in the Annex and this is her story. We follow Miep as a young girl in Vienna, her love for the Dutch, her journey to become an official Dutch citizen during the Natzi regime, her relationship with the Franks (before, during, and after the war), her plight to feed the Franks and retain enough food for them as well as her and her husband, and the fear that lurked in her heart for the Franks and countless others she helped hide or knew were in hiding. I'm going to keep this review short because it's a nonfiction narrative I fidn those incredibly hard to review. This audiobook is fantastic. Rosenblat does a stellar job of capturing the emotions of Miep and those around her. It is important to note that this story will probably break your heart. Towards the end, I found myself crying a lot. My heart completely breaks for these people and the plights that were dealing with in the Annex and after in the camps. This story is just as important as Anne’s because we are seeing the work that went into hiding these people from the Nazi Regime and the horrors of concentration and death camps. This novel is filled with sorrow and I will admit it made me quite depressed, but it also filled me with hope for humanity. Miep Gies never once saw herself as a hero, she saw herself as someone trying to save her dear friends’ lives and that to me makes her one of the most heroic people in history. Her deep love for the Franks shined through this story and I was moved to laughter and to tears. This is a novel that I think everyone should read alongside The Diary of a Young Girl. It is important not only to history, but in inspiring people to put others before themselves.

Whimsical Writing Scale: 5

Character Scale: 5

Plotastic Scale: 5

Narration Scale: 5

Cover Thoughts: The cover is nice, but it’s weird to critique the portrait of a young girl who changed the world.

I just had shoulder surgery and really can’t think clearly to write a review. Once I’m feeling better I will post my review. I just wanted everyone to know why I haven’t been reading this past week.

Thank you all for understanding.
Bobbi

Miep Gies was one of Otto Frank's employees. She helped hide, feed, visit, and provide news to the Frank family and the others who were hidden for 25 months during the Holocaust.

Miep passed away in 2010 one month from her 101st birthday. She was an amazing person.

I listened to this audiobook on Libby (a free app with the entry of a public library card number). At the beginning, there is an interview with the co-author, Alison Leslie Gold that is fascinating. Alison became close with Miep and attended Miep's 100th birthday celebration.

This firsthand account of hiding the Frank family and others, as well as what daily life was like in Amsterdam during German occupation is gripping.

There is an updated Epilogue that discusses the various investigations that were undertaken to determine who betrayed the Franks. It does not include the more recent investigations that have occurred since Miep's death. Miep also shares things that the movie did not get right.

Highly recommend!

Meip is an inspiration! Amazing book, a must read. As a history teacher I will be using pieces of this book to show students a different side of the war that not many know about.

“Anne Frank Remembered” is a powerful account written by one of the Dutch residents who hid the Frank family and others during the Nazi occupation of Holland. Miep Gies pens a stirring account of what she and her husband endured in order to provide two and a half years of shelter to 11 Jewish people avoiding the German Nazi sweeps of Amsterdam’s Jewish population. All the while, Mieps and the rest of the Dutch population were victimized and brutalized by their German occupiers.

This work is more than a story about the Frank family, but an even deeper parallel account of how non-Jews sacrificed their own lives to protect their Jewish friends. Throughout the book Gies lists how life changed for the Jewish people living in a neutral country that came under the occupation of the Germans during WW2.

I found Gies’ descriptions of how Jewish people were treated by the Nazis deeply troubling. For instance, It was because the occupiers wanted to send the older Frank daughter Margot to a labor camp that the family went into hiding.

In addition, Jewish people were forced to wear the infamous yellow star to identity them and register them with the German government. Jews and Christians were forbidden to marry; Jews were not allowed to attend non-Jewish schools, which affected Anne and Margot Frank. Christians would be jailed if they were caught hiding Jewish people.

Jewish people had their phones disconnected by the Nazis, could not use public transportation; were forbidden to purchase food in regular shops and were restricted shopping during specific hours. Most sad, the Nazis arrested Jewish people, separated families and sent them to labor camps or extermination camps. According to Gies, Anne and her sister Margot died of typhoid in Auschwitz were they were unjustly imprisoned..

As I was reading “Anne Frank Remembered,” I filled up several pages listing all the restrictions placed on Jewish people in Holland in the late 1930s and early 1940s. So I by no means cataloged all the atrocities the Nazis unleashed on the Jewish people. Any failure to list additional inhumane treatment of the Jewish people in this review is my responsibility.

When I hear radical conservative option shapers in their books and on the radio airwaves compare America to Germany or occupied countries occupied by the Nazis, I become incensed and flabbergasted how modern day Americans can be so ill informed about what life was like under the boot of the Nazi power.

Read this book. It is a quick read, but don’t be fooled into thinking such a quick read cannot have a lasting impact on your thinking. Every Christian especially should devour this book to see what true Christian love entails especially when we claim to love the Jewish people. “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.” (John 15:13 ESV).

Anne Frank Remembered

What a moving and inspirational book. A definite must read for all.

It would be hard for me to overstate how grateful I am that this book and I crossed paths. I was assigned the role of Edith Frank in a community theater production of the play, and my director recommended this book. On self-serving level, I appreciated that this book gave me additional information about Mrs. Frank. Anne wrote about her mother frequently, but most of what she wrote had to do with her feelings about her mother, which, as an adolescent, weren't very forgiving. I also love memoir and Miep's life story is remarkable. It was also illuminating to read about what life was like for people who weren't in hiding during the German occupation and beyond. I listened to this book and, in my opinion, the reader was well chosen for this engaging story.

Para quem, como eu, tem O diário de Anne Frank como referência incontornável na sua vida de leitor(a) e para quem, como eu, sempre quis conhecer o outro lado, saber mais sobre essas pessoas (com traços de verdadeiros heróis) que ajudaram os 7 judeus que estiveram escondidos no Anexo, este livro é de leitura obrigatória.
Obrigada, Miep!

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This is one of those books that both breaks your heart and uplifts you at the same time. Miep Gies does not see herself and her husband as "heroes" but they most certainly are. They are the couple who helped hide Otto Franks' family in Holland during World War 2. His daughter Anne did not survive the Nazi concentration camp but her diary, her thoughts, her words, and her heart will live forever. It was through the actions of Miep Gies who first hid the Franks and then rescued and saved Anne's diary and later gave it to her father Otto that we know Anne's deepest, more heartfelt thoughts.
This book documents the story of Anne from just before she went into hiding until her death and even beyond when Otto Frank returned to live with Miep and her husband and received the now-famous diary. I could feel my heart pounding with fear as Miep took me back to those dangerous times and she herself was almost arrested and possibly executed for harboring Jews.
Please read this book. It is something that will remind you that some people on this planet are not selfish. There are compassionate people who will risk their lives for others and to do the right thing. They are not about profit and selfishness but about love for others and truly live out their love. Miep Gies is one of those people.