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    knowing the next stop was being relocated at the concentration camps. Miep Gies had a disappointed look on her face probably she could have warned them, but no one was prepared for this. Miep Gies knew she couldn’t lie to Gestapo or else it would have been horrible for each and everyone of them. The Gestapo arrested the Franks, Van Danns, and Dussel…

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    The documentary, “Dear Kitty” revolves around Miep Gies, and her recollection of helping Anne Frank and her family go into hiding. Miep, was a Dutch citizen who was hired by Anne’s father, Otto Frank. In the summer of 1942, Mr. Frank had initially hired Miep to be the secretary of the business he managed, but with the Nazis ceasing all the Jews from Holland, he would soon need her help with hiding his family. Miep, along with the other four staff members, agreed to help. The Frank family hid in…

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    “The Secret Annex” (“Anne”). A small group of Otto’s employees risked their lives to sneak in food and information about the outside world for the two families (“Anne”). These brave and courageous people were Kelinman and Kuglar, as well as Jan and Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl (“Anne”). Life for all of these people in such a small space must have been tense. Especially when all of them had different thought and opinions on everything. But, to pass time, Anne wrote about her experiences in her…

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    Miep Gies was an important person in the lives of the Frank family and the Van Pel family. She risked her life to help the two families. After everyone but Mr. Frank died in the concentration camps Mr. Frank went and lived with Miep Gies and Jan Gies. Miep Gies and Jan Gies had a child named Paul Gies. He was born July 30, 1950. Mr. Frank died August 19, 1980. Miep Gies and Jan Gies lived happily in their home in Holland until Jan Gies died of diabetes in 1993. By this time Paul Gies was 43…

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    Frank is at the time of the 1940s and tells a story of a young bright girl and her family. Mr.Otto Frank returned home only to later realize his family was gone and he was the only survivor. Soon after he was given the diary he gave to Anne from Miep Gies a family friend who help the Franks and the van Daans in the annex. Once he got the diary he was encouraged to publish his child's words under the name of “The Diary of a Young Girl”. Behind a bookshelf was a door which led to the annex which…

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    were still alive (Lewis 10). Soon after returning to Amsterdam Otto was approached by one of the people who had aided them in hiding. Miep Gies, the one who had helped the Franks, had gone through the annex after the officers had left and collected all of the personal items they had ;left behind. She returned Anne’s diary to her father and hadn 't read a single word. Miep also delivered some very heartbreaking news to Mr.Frank, Anne and her sister had died of typhus just a few days before their…

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    Victor Kugler and Johannes Kleiman, were thrown into a covered truck and arrested. All were forced to leave everything behind, and the Nazis would later claim all their valuables and possessions. Fortunately, the other aides who were not arrested, Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl, were able to sneak upstairs…

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    Conflict is a major literary element that creates tension and interest in a story by adding doubt in the outcome. People think of conflict as something negative such as tension, withdraw, trust, stimulating, revealing, resolution, liberation, progress, and intention. It is important to include conflict to a novel because the reader should have a reason should have a reason to care about the outcome and to continue reading to learn that outcome. Outcome is everything that happens between the…

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    Amsterdam. Anne frank was born on 12 June 1929 in the german city of frankfurt. She lived with the van Daan's and her mother, father, and sister. They way they were able to stay in hiding for 2 years because they had no Jewish friends Mr.kraler and Miep Gies. Anne frank was living throughout those two years was a struggle and everyone had standard rules and could not really have any freedom until night. The food supplies were limited and rooms…

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    selfless acts could have on lives: Anne Frank's words lived on, and they had the power to change lives,but one person stood out the most in her diary that was Hermine “Miep” Gies. We owe the existence of the book to Miep Gies, a tremendously courageous and just woman who helped Anne Frank and her family hide from the Nazis. Gies not only risked her own life to provide the Franks with food and supplies, but she found, saved, and eventually shared Anne"s diary. She worked as a secretary…

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