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When they became involved Jan was in the process of getting a divorce and eventually, the two married in July 1941, just short of a year before Otto's eldest daughter Margot was called up.
A Small Light, which is based on the true story of Miep Gies, who helped hide the Frank family from the Nazis, will drop two episodes per week on National Geographic beginning May 1.
Miep and Jan Gies, years later, stand by the bookcase that hid a secret entrance to the hiding place of Anne Frank, her family and four others in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam (EPA) ...
It pretty much all fell on her, with an assist from husband Jan Gies. The book was immediately turned into the 1987 made-for-TV movie “The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank,” which was nominated ...
During this time, Gies and her husband, Jan Gies, were also hiding a Christian college student in their own house, who was in danger for refusing to sign an oath saying that he would not act ...
National Geographic released a photo from the upcoming A SMALL LIGHT. Reflecting on the holiday’s themes of resistance, resilience and courage, it shows Miep and Jan Gies, the Frank family, the ...
Miep Gies, the last survivor of those who risked death to hide Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis, died Jan. 11 in the Netherlands. Ms. Gies had suffered a fall on Christmas, and her Web ...
Miep initially hides her role in helping the Frank family from her husband, Jan Gies ( Joe Cole), who later supports her. Jan has his own anti-Nazi agenda as a member of the Dutch resistance, but ...
Miep and Jan Gies real-life story, and the eventual fate of the Dutch couple who sheltered the Franks.
It was a woman named Miep Gies, however, who provided a first-hand aural witness’s account of those hiding out in what came to be known as the Secret Annex. It’s her tale that’s told in “A ...