The Greatest Helper in Hide and Seek: Miep Gies
Personal Life Miep Gies (her real name was Hermine Santruschitz) was born in February 15, 1909. She was the second daughter of working class parents. In her early age, she caught many illnesses, and had to flee her homeland Vienna, Austria, and lived with the Nieuwenbergs in the Netherlands. Miep was only due for 3 months in Netherlands, but she loved her new family so much, she stayed with them permanently. She returned to Vienna at 16 to explain to her family that she wanted to stay with the people who took care of her. Her family understood, and let her go back to the Netherlands. Miep finished schooling at 18, worked for a textile company until she was 24, and married a man named Jan Gies. In 1940, though, Miep had to return to Vienna because the netherlands was bombarded by the Nazis.
The Holocaust “The Holocaust was the systematic persecution of six million Jews and other irregular social groups by the Nazi regime during world war two.” This happened because Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazis and Germany found these groups inferior to the aryan race. This was because Hitler found the Jews to be the reason Germany lost world war one. The reason he blamed them is because the Jewish bankers didn’t spend the money wisely during world war one. While Adolf Hitler was …show more content…
She did this by helping Jews hide from the nazis under Hitler’s rule. Miep hid Anne Frank and Anne’s family. She hid them while Hitler was searching for Jewish people and taking them to concentration camps to do slave work. Miep hid Anne Frank and her family in the secret annex in the company building. Miep also hid four other Jewish people besides Anne frank’s family.Miep got groceries for the Franks and hid them for two years. She was a part in the end of the Holocaust and the Genocide of six million jews. Finally, when Otto returned from the concentration camp, she gave him his daughter’s
Personal Life Miep Gies (her real name was Hermine Santruschitz) was born in February 15, 1909. She was the second daughter of working class parents. In her early age, she caught many illnesses, and had to flee her homeland Vienna, Austria, and lived with the Nieuwenbergs in the Netherlands. Miep was only due for 3 months in Netherlands, but she loved her new family so much, she stayed with them permanently. She returned to Vienna at 16 to explain to her family that she wanted to stay with the people who took care of her. Her family understood, and let her go back to the Netherlands. Miep finished schooling at 18, worked for a textile company until she was 24, and married a man named Jan Gies. In 1940, though, Miep had to return to Vienna because the netherlands was bombarded by the Nazis.
The Holocaust “The Holocaust was the systematic persecution of six million Jews and other irregular social groups by the Nazi regime during world war two.” This happened because Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazis and Germany found these groups inferior to the aryan race. This was because Hitler found the Jews to be the reason Germany lost world war one. The reason he blamed them is because the Jewish bankers didn’t spend the money wisely during world war one. While Adolf Hitler was …show more content…
She did this by helping Jews hide from the nazis under Hitler’s rule. Miep hid Anne Frank and Anne’s family. She hid them while Hitler was searching for Jewish people and taking them to concentration camps to do slave work. Miep hid Anne Frank and her family in the secret annex in the company building. Miep also hid four other Jewish people besides Anne frank’s family.Miep got groceries for the Franks and hid them for two years. She was a part in the end of the Holocaust and the Genocide of six million jews. Finally, when Otto returned from the concentration camp, she gave him his daughter’s