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Anne Frank Remembered: the Story of the Woman who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
Anne Frank Remembered the Story of the Woman who Helped to Hide the Frank Family Author:Miep Gies with Alison Leslie Gold Since its initial publication forty years ago The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank has become a modern classic. Now, for the first time, we learn another side of the Anne Frank story in this moving book, the autobiography of Miep Gies, the woman who helped to hide the Frank family. Miep's relationship with the Franks began when she came to wo... more »rk for Anne's father in 1933, shortly after he emigrated from Germany to Amsterdam to escape the Nazis. Following the wartime German occupation of the Netherlands and the increasingly harsh measures the Nazis imposed on Dutch Jews, the Frank family decided to go into hiding in 1942. Along with her husband, Jan, Miep became on of the Franks' key links to the outside world, supplying food, news, and emotional support - at great personal risk - for more than two years. Written with an honesty and a simplicity that are devastating, this vivid and heartbreaking story of life under Nazi occupation includes several startling revelations. Miep recalls the terrible events of the tragic day that the Franks were seized, including her finding Anne's diary - which she did not read, out of respect for Anne's privacy, until it was published three years later. She describes her chilling trip to Gestapo headquarters in Amsterdam after the Franks were arrested, where she attempted to bribe the Nazis into releasing her friends. And she tells of the last winter of the war, the "Hunger Winter," when she had to travel far outside Amsterdam in search of food even as she saw other dying in the streets from starvation. At once shattering and inspiring, Anne Frank Remembered will resonate in the hearts of the millions of readers who have been touched by Anne's Diary. A powerful testament to the courage and sheer indomitability of all those who refused to sacrifice their humanity in the midst of one of history's darkest hours, this book, like the Diary itself, will become a classic work affirming the nobility of the human spirit.« less