During the time the Franks were away, the business still went on. They had to make a living some way. After a year of waiting and worrying “…Otto Frank returned. When they learned that the rest of the family had perished in the camps, she gave him the diaries” (Miep Gies). This is just another example that portrays how compassionate Gies was. She held onto those diaries in hopes of them all returning one day. Gies had been persuaded to tell her story and “had to think of the place that Anne Frank holds in history and what her story has come to mean for the many millions of people who have been touched by it. I’m told that every night when the sun goes down, somewhere in the world the curtain is going up on the stage, a play made from Anne’s diary” (Miep Gies: I Am Not a Hero). This magnifies how strong and brave she was to be able to tell this story of hers. Not only that, but how brave she was to keep them hidden never knowing when someone would burst through her doors and take her,
During the time the Franks were away, the business still went on. They had to make a living some way. After a year of waiting and worrying “…Otto Frank returned. When they learned that the rest of the family had perished in the camps, she gave him the diaries” (Miep Gies). This is just another example that portrays how compassionate Gies was. She held onto those diaries in hopes of them all returning one day. Gies had been persuaded to tell her story and “had to think of the place that Anne Frank holds in history and what her story has come to mean for the many millions of people who have been touched by it. I’m told that every night when the sun goes down, somewhere in the world the curtain is going up on the stage, a play made from Anne’s diary” (Miep Gies: I Am Not a Hero). This magnifies how strong and brave she was to be able to tell this story of hers. Not only that, but how brave she was to keep them hidden never knowing when someone would burst through her doors and take her,