Vou escrever uma review pequenina.
Decidi ler este livro já que fui à casa de Anne Frank há umas semanas em Amesterdão. Já li o Diário duas vezes, mas foi há alguns anos então muitos pormenores estavam esquecidos e queria voltar a lembrar-me.
Estou um bocado a arrepender me, porque enquanto que o livro foi interessante e informativo no início, o fim é sempre muito triste, especialmente do ponto de vista da Miep, que viveu para contar a história de todos os momentos finais da família da Anne, o antes, o durante e o depois. Estou deprimida agora mas pronto.
Foi muito interessante ler sobre as coisas depois de ter ido a Amesterdão. Consigo finalmente imaginar o Anexo na minha cabeça, aos 13 anos, quando li o Diário, não conseguia, então agora ler sobre o assunto é muito diferente. Por exemplo, ler sobre a festa que o Anexo organizou no 1º aniversário do casamento de Miep, e a ementa que a Anne escreveu. A ementa estava exposta no museu, então ler sobre uma coisa que eu vi tantos anos depois traz uma sensação estranha. Ainda mais estranho foi ler sobre como a Anne pendurou fotos de atores de cinema no seu quarto, porque vi as mesmas fotos ainda penduradas nas mesmas paredes, já amarelecidas pelo tempo mas ainda no mesmo sítio.
Pronto, só queria apontar algumas coisas. Foi um livro muito bem escrito (li-o em 24 horas), gostei imenso de ter ficado a saber mais sobre a Miep Gies e tudo o que ela e o marido fizeram para ajudar os judeus durante a II Guerra, não só a família de Anne mas muitos outros.
Achei também muito interessante ler sobre a evolução da Guerra, como no início eram apenas discussões políticas ao almoço e depois se foi tudo agravando rapidamente. Faz-nos pensar sobre onde estamos agora.

Audiobook. Enjoyed this very much. Excellent narrator. Anne Frank's familiar story told from the rescuer's viewpoint. I found most interesting the lives of the Dutch during the Nazi occupation, as I already knew the story of the Franks. This didn't add much to that knowledge, other than Meip's impressions of the family. She's mortified, for example, that the dentist is depicted in the play and movies as a difficult character. She insists he wasn't anything like those characterizations. She defends the family from criticism at every turn. Of course, she downplays her own courage in sheltering not only the Franks, but several others in hiding as well. She and her husband even hid a boy avoiding deportation for labor in Germany in their own home for awhile, and they sheltered other Jews as well. After her husband's death, she learned that he had been heavily involved in the Resistance, and probably saved many more people, both Jewish and Dutch.

There is a documentary film by the same name that interviews Meip herself, and others. I'd love to see that. All in all, very interesting, an excellent audiobook, highly recommended for those interested in the subject.

I have always wondered what I would have done if I had lived through the Nazi occupation during WWII but I don’t know that any of us can answer that without having experienced that. Miep is one of the few people who could say that she knows exactly what she would do, because she did it.

I have read Anne’s diary and I have even visited the annex in Amsterdam but my curiosity of the lives of those who helped hide the Frank’s and others in the annex was not sparked until I watched the new show “A Small Light.” After watching this incredible show I wanted to learn everything about those who exemplified incredible compassion, persistence, and bravery to save others. I was not disappointed reading this account of what it was like- this book is both fascinating and heartbreaking and I couldn’t put it down.

The one thing that Miep said more than anything in her 100 years on this earth is that she wasn’t a hero- she was an ordinary person who did what any ordinary person would do. She was a secretary and a housewife who just had to help people. I like to think this is true- but I will never negate the incredible character that was exemplified by her and so many others. This book is so important and it should be required reading in every school.

“But even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenager can, within their own small ways, turn on a small light in a dark room.”

I've read Miep Gies' touching account of war-time in Amsterdam, and her friendship with the Frank Family before, but it is still one of the best stories of this horrid period in history.
Miep is great narrator, and the book is well-structured and simply fascinating from the first to the last page.

4.5*

It is odd to suggest that a book about the horrors of WWII could be uplifting and hopeful, but this one is. Perhaps it is Miep Gies’ conviction that she was an ordinary person, her explanation that pretty much every Dutch person was hiding someone, her very human rejoicing in every attempt on Hitler’s life, but really I think the whole idea that human beings have stood up to evil and triumphed, that we can care about and for each other, is the important message that we are currently missing. This is all of Miep’s story, the parts that include Anne and the parts that don’t, despite the title of the book.

Read magnificently by Barbara Rosenblat in a Viennese accent that never falters.

A great insight on the couple who helped hide the Frank family. Very detailed and interesting to read!

Anne Frank Remembered by Miep Gies and Alison Leslie Gold, Published in 1987 is a truly awe-inspiring nonfiction masterpiece and is told through the point of view of Miep Gies who helped hide Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis. Miep Gies helps the Frank family hide from the Nazis through deception and a little trickery. Though the reason why is that she hates the Nazis. Why she hates the Nazis most likely because the Nazis invaded the Netherlands and because the Nazis try to make themselves good with propaganda. From Miep Gies's perspective in the book they slowly start making it impossible for the Jewish community to live in the Netherlands, which eventually causes the Jewish community in the Netherlands to leave and go to a different country or stay. Though under the Nazi occupation in the Netherlands, it is suicide to keep be Jewish because of Anti-Semitism and the so-called mysterious Jewish deaths from diseases.

tMiep Gies's disapproval of the Nazi's involvement causes her to do minor things to avoid or go against them. Eventually, she commits to doing a major crime against the Nazis by hiding Anne Frank and her family who were Jewish. By hiding Anne Frank and her family it greatly risks Miep Gies from being imprisoned or being put into a Concentration Camp with the Jewish people who were found in the Occupied Nazi Territory.
I personally believe that this book is an excellent read for all ages. And, is great at leading to the events of Anne Frank from Miep Gies's perspective. All in all its weakness is that the book is pretty long and takes a while before getting to the point of how Miep Gies helped hide Anne Frank and her family.

This book was one of those books that I read in preparation for my upcoming performance of The Diary of Anne Frank. Coming into this book, I expected just to learn more about the Frank family and what they experienced during their time in hiding. Instead, I came away with a whole new perspective on what the war really was for some people.

I'm not going to review this book in the traditional sense because I feel this book is beyond that. Instead, I am just going to tell you what I thought.

First off, this book is an eye-opener to the harsh realities of the war. I learned new things about the war that I don't think I wanted to know. Miep Gies and her husband were truly heroes, even though Miep claims they are not. It took so much during that time to be brave and to do what they did, and yet throughout the whole story, they never think of their selves, they put everyone else before them.

I don't think we as people really understand how dangerous a thing Miep was doing. She put her life in danger everyday to help those around her. Her story is one of courage, thoughtfulness, and bravery that stay with you forever.

I am so pleased that Miep wrote this book about her experiences during the war while hiding the Frank family. I saw World War 2 in a new way that made me question old views I had of the war. I learned for the first time how realistic the struggling was for everyone, not just the Jews.

I don't think I can accurately portray what this book is and will continue to be. It is a token of human dignity in a time when human dignity did not exist. It is a memorial to many lost souls who did not make it through the war. It is a testament that charity and good things still exist. But most of all, it is Anne Frank Remembered.

I have read many books, fiction and nonfiction, about WWII and the Holocaust. Even others about helping or hiding Jews. This one was different because the reader gets a day-to-day depiction of what Nazi occupation was like. How gradually the Germans imposed changes in the beginning. How BBC radio broadcasts were the only way people could find out what was happening. What a problem it was if a Jew in hiding died--what to do with the body without getting caught? What living in fear was like. What it was like, waiting to be liberated while starving. What it was like, day after day, scavenging for something to eat.

Even after liberation, how long it took before signs of normality began to return. So interesting, Miep mentions how during the war, people were united. There was no more class structure, no exclusions due to wealth or anything else. There were only Dutch who resisted, and Dutch who aided the Germans. But after normality returned, all the old class structures returned, divisions returned, and unity disappeared. The story of Anne Frank's Diary was also interesting. How Miep gathered and saved it, how Anne's father resisted its publication, but finally agreed, having been convinced by historians that it was a war document and should belong to the world.

This is a book I won't forget.

This amazing audio was perhaps more powerful to me as an adult than Anne’s own diary. The perspective of a Dutch person and community helping to hide people they cared for was a heartbreaking education.

O que posso dizer sobre este livro incrível?
Muitas pessoas já conhecem a história de Anne Frank, mas neste caso é-nos apresentada num registo completamente diferente. Desta vez, vemos tudo a acontecer através dos olhos de Miep, a senhora que ajudou Anne e a sua família durante os anos em que estiveram escondidos.

No Diário de Anne Frank, lemos algo muito mais juvenil, uma visão do mundo muito mais inocente, com descobertas próprias da adolescência e uma réstia de esperança pela fim da guerra. Em A Mulher Que Escondeu Anne Frank, não acompanhamos esse crescimento de Anne tão de perto. O foco está mais voltado para o desenvolvimento da guerra, das mudanças e restrições que dia após dia foram sendo feitas, do limite de comida imposto a todos, das pessoas que foram desaparecendo sem deixar rasto, do desespero de quem viveu naqueles dias de puro terror.

Durante vários anos, Miep lutou pela sobrevivência de não uma, não duas, mas sim várias pessoas, mantendo-as escondidas, fazendo o que podia e correndo imensos riscos para que os dias de quem estava escondido custassem o menos possível a passar.

Não é novidade para ninguém que, infelizmente, a família de Anne acabou por ser descoberta e só sobreviveu o pai. Mesmo já sabendo isso de antemão, é completamente angustiante estar a ler e chegar ao dia em que o esconderijo foi descoberto, dia esse em que todos foram levados para os campos de concentração. Mas, para mim, foi ainda mais revoltante ter chegado ao momento em que a guerra acabou e perceber que aquelas pessoas já não existiam. Quer por motivos de doença, de trabalhos forcados, fosse pelo que fosse, foi cruel. E não foi cruel só porque esta história se foca numa criança, que se tornou adolescente, e ficou conhecida mundialmente devido ao seu diário. Foi cruel porque à medida que ia lendo este livro, ia pensando em todas as famílias que também estiveram escondidas e não escaparam, em todo o sofrimento que aqueles anos inevitavelmente provocaram a tanta, tanta gente. Mas, principalmente, e simbolicamente falando, em todas as Anne Frank que viveram aquele horror e não tiveram a oportunidade de viver as suas vidas.

Miep, já com idade avançada, deu um testemunho da forma mais real que a sua memória lhe permitiu (palavras da própria). A meu ver, isso foi muito importante uma vez que esclareceu muitos pormenores relativamente a datas e a especificidades relativas aos campos de concentração onde a família foi parar.

Ainda que Miep não se auto-intitule assim, foi sem dúvida uma heroína. Este livro, especialmente esta senhora, fez-me ter esperança na bondade, solidariedade e justiça das pessoas.

Para mim uma história sobre o Holocausto nunca será só mais uma sobre o tema e a acrescentar à lista, ainda para mais tratando-se particularmente desta história. É importante aprender com os erros, mas mais importante ainda é não voltar a comete-los.

Leiam este livro, é bom demais para ficar só na livraria.