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Title	:	Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
Author	:	Miep Gies
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 252 pages
Published	:	April 15th 1988 by Touchstone Books (first published January 1st 1987)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. History. Biography. World War II. Holocaust. Autobiography. Memoir. Classics. War

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If a person has heard Miep Gies speak, this book is extactly like her speech. She may have a co-author, but her voice comes though loud and clear. Like the documentry about Anne Frank, this book does much in dispelling some of the myths that surrond the Frank family and thier assoicates. In many ways, Otto and Anne Frank still dominant the book. In part, this is because Gies had a closer relationship to Mr. Frank, and in part because of the popularity of Anne Frank's diary. Gies, however, brings a different prespective to several of the attic residents. The Van Danns become more just Anne's fighting couple and are shown to be as intelligent and as generous as the Franks. Gies points out that Anne's diary was lucky enough to surive, while Margot's was not. She shows that Edith Frank was willing, encouraged, her husband and children to escape to America, even if it meant living her behind. Gies expresses regret over how some of the residents, in particular Dussel, where protrayed in various film versions. Additionally, Gies presents a good look at Amsterdam and the Netherlands during the war. From the mention of Rotterdam's destruction at the bombs of the Germans to Radio Orange to the struggle to find food, Gies paints a picture of life without getting bogged down in details. Even today, one can still see the Dutch anger at the Germans as evidenced by the party Rotterdam threw when Amsterdam's Ajax beat a German team for the Champions League crown. The reader is also given examples of the fates other Jewish residents, some who managed to go into hiding, some who did not. Gies and her husband, Jan (Henk), were far more heroic than any read of the diary knows. There is no hubris in the story, and one has to wonder if Gies wrote because of her desire to set the record straight and to prove to all the slanderers that the diary recorded real life. The epilogue is one of the few places were she really sounds angry about those people. Recently, historians have pointed out that stories such Gies' makes it sound as if the Dutch were far more subversive and saved more Jews than they actually did. Gies doesn't claim to speak for her country. In fact, she makes it quite clear that there was a large amount of betrayal going on, especially when food became hard to get. She mentions problems about what to do when someone in hiding dies. While she never states the fact that she didn't have a child during the war, one wonders if the childless statue of Gies and her husband made it easier for them to risk helping people. She never says, but the question hangs in the shadows of some passages. This isn't to miminalize her bravery or the bravery of the other helpers who did so much because it was the right thing to do. It simply, like the book, makes us consider the wider picture.

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Original Title:	Anne Frank Remembered
ISBN:	0671662341 (ISBN13: 9780671662349)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Anne Frank
Literary Awards:	Audie Award for Biography/Memoir (2010)

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Anne Frank Remembered by Miep Gies & Alison Leslie GoldNarrated by: Barbara Rosenblat5 starsThe story of Anne Frank has been told for many decades and is one that resonates with a lot of young people. Annes story of survival in the Annex of her fathers 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

Ever since I was a little girl, I've had a fascination with European history. In particular, the first and second world wars interested me to no end. When I was nine years old, I was first introduced to the Holocaust in my fourth grade class. Every week, we were required to read a story out of an anthology and would study that story. These were sometimes short stories, sometimes excerpts from novels, and sometimes a retelling of historical events (I could recall that earlier that year we read

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Fascinating story about an incredible woman faced with many hard choices. Very inspiring.

Simply fascinating, as I knew it would be.Tears in my eyes as I read that Peter van Daan survived "The Auschwitz Death March"(as did Elie Wiesel who documented that nightmare experience in the book "Night"),only to die in Mauthausen on the same day that the camp was liberated by the Americans.

I am not a hero. I stand at the end of the long, long line of good Dutch people who did what I did or moremuch moreduring those dark and terrible times years ago, but always like yesterday in the hearts of those of us who bear witness. Never a day goes by that I do not think of what happened then. . . . I willingly did what I could to help. My husband did as well. It was not enough.There is nothing special about me. . . . I was only willing to do what was asked of me and what seemed necessary at

I recently reread, "The Diary of Anne Frank" and while it is a very moving and wonderful journal it left me with so many questions about how the hiding place really worked out for so many months. The answer is Miep Gies. Now she was an amazing woman. Vienna born and Dutch by marriage she was a good friend to the Frank family and worked in Otto Frank's pectin store front for many years before they went into hiding. She shopped and came for visits and offered comfort and support to the people in