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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
    Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
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    Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family

    Written by Miep Gies and Alison Leslie Gold

    Narrated by Barbara Rosenblat

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    About this audiobook

    She found Anne Frank's diary and brought the world a message of love and hope.  For more than two years, Miep Gies and her husband helped hide the Franks from the Nazis. Like thousands of unsung heroes of the Holocaust, they risked their lives each day to bring food, news, and emotional support to the victims. From her own remarkable childhood as a World War I refugee to the moment she places a small, red-orange, checkered diary -- Anne's legacy -- in Otto Frank's hands, Miep Gies remembers her days with simple honesty and shattering clarity. Each page rings with courage and heartbreaking beauty.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOasis Audio
    Release dateFeb 1, 2009
    ISBN9781608144822
    Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
    Author

    Miep Gies

    Hermine Santruschitz Gies, better known as Miep Gies, helped hide Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis, and saved her diaries. 

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    • 1/5
      Her vice is boring just joined I I just wanted to say that it was not the same as others

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    • 5/5
      Narrated by Barbara Rosenblatt. I am glad Miep Gies was finally convinced to share her story about hiding Anne and her family. It rounds out what we know from Anne's diary and is a fascinating account of compassion and survival during wartime. Listening to Rosenblatt's husky-voiced reading is like sitting down with Miep herself and hearing her reminisce with conviction about days gone by. Miep didn't think of herself as a hero but it's amazing how compassionate acts go a long, long way.
    • 5/5
      After visiting the Ann Franke Museum, I learned of this book. Such hardache and suffering, sacrifice and courage. Worth my time listening and I pray history will never repeat itself.
    • 5/5
      A heartfelt recalling of a most challenging time and a beautiful memory of Ann Frank.
    • 5/5
      Super! Well worth a listen then watch A Small light, the mini series about Mieps life
    • 5/5
      I like this story. We need to take like this
    • 5/5
      Riveting and tragic. The narrator's voice added so much to the story.
    • 5/5
      This is a riveting story of what was involved in the hiding of the Frank family and others during the German occupation of Holland as well as the deteriorating conditions of life for the Dutch. The story begins years before the occupation when Miep forms a relationship with the Franks, Anne and her father in particular. I must read if you've read The Diary of Anne Frank.
    • 5/5
      Fascinating to hear the story of what went on outside the Frank's Secret Annexe. What an amazing woman Miep Gies was. Together with her husband Jan and the other helpers, Miep exemplified bravery and humanity in a time of terror.
    • 5/5
      A lovely recital of a very interesting and true story of Anne Frank, her friends, her near and dear and her enemies.
    • 4/5
      This is the story of Anne Frank's diary told from the outside. The book is narrated in the first person from the memories of Miep Gies, the woman most directly responsible for hiding the Franks and their friends. Miep gives a more complete picture of the war, the resistance in Holland and the difficult winter that followed the Frank's arrest. Things were very bleak in the Netherlands and this time, and in fact, many nearly starved. Miep and her husband were also hiding another Jew in their home and Miep's husband was very heavily involved in the underground working to sabotage the Germans. Both risked much and lost much in the war. A powerful story of friendship, sacrifice, and doing the right thing despite the cost.
    • 5/5
      If you're familiar with Anne Frank's story and you've ever wondered what was happening on the outside while her family was in hiding in Amsterdam, Miep Gies's memoir provides the answer. Miep (her real nickname, but not her real name) tells of being sent from her home in Vienna to live with a Dutch family after World War I so that she could regain her health and strength. She recalls working with Otto Frank in a company that sold pectin for jam making. Miep became a friend of the whole family, and she shares her memories of her first meeting with Anne and of watching her grow up. When the Franks and another family went into hiding in the firm's storage area, Miep and a few other employees were their only connection to the outside world. Unknown to the Frank family, Miep and her husband also hid a Jewish man in their home. As the months passed, it became increasingly difficult for Miep to find enough food to feed so many people. After the Franks and the others were discovered and sent to concentration camps, Miep and her husband had to endure the “hunger winter” and its extreme shortage of food, fuel, and electricity.It always made me sad that Anne Frank and her family were discovered just months before the end of the war and the Holocaust. I thought that if they hadn't been discovered, they could have remained in hiding until the end of the war and Anne could have published her diary herself. After hearing Miep's description of the “hunger winter” and how difficult it became to find any food at all, I'm not certain that the Franks and their companions would all have survived in hiding even if they hadn't been discovered. Miep probably couldn't have continued to feed that many people. It's a tragic, but important, story, and a good complement to the more famous Diary of Anne Frank.
    • 5/5
      Excellent memoir of one of the Dutch helpers of the Frank family.
    • 5/5
      I have read everything about Anne Frank that I could get my hands on. She has been a hero of mine for a very long time. Another hero is Miep Gies. When I finally had a chance to read her version of the German occupation and her time caring for the Franks, I jumped on it. Throughout the story, I learned things about Miep and Jan (her husband), which I never knew and which further made me realize what amazing people they were. Miep also gets into what happened on the day the Frank family was taken into custody and what was happening downstairs. I enjoyed this book from beginning to end and believe it is essential reading for those who are interested in World War II from the perspective of those who were on the outside of looking in.
    • 4/5
      This book provided much information regarding moral people who risked their lives during the Second World War. It was also interesting to learn how very difficult and tragic the lives of many Dutch were at this time and after the war ended. The writing could have been clearer, and I would have liked more in depth discussion about why these people took the possibly fatal chances they did.
    • 4/5
      Heartbreaking and uplifting. This tells the story of of Miep, how she came to know the Franks, how she helped the Franks and the war in general. It provides a personal look at the war, the effects of the war, and the lives of people tying to help in anyway they could.
    • 4/5
      Miep's story really fleshes out the events before, during, and after what is covered in Anne Frank's diary.
    • 5/5
      I just know Anne Frank by her name but because of this book, I did not only know her by name but also her experiences. Miep really did a great job helping the Frank family and because of that she's been blessed. This book is a must-read because the story comes straight from the Frank family's friend Miep. It is more credible than of other's works. Read it and you'll surely love it.
    • 5/5
      This book gives an insightful and poignant view into the life of Anne Frank. Filled with pictures and details that can really clarify to students who Anne Frank really was.
    • 5/5
      Wow. I just finished reading this title and was very moved. Like most of us, I read Anne Frank's diary in school while growing up, but reading the tale of the people who helped hide her, the risks they took became much more clear. Not only the Jewish group in the attic, but the Christians who secretly aided them, suffered great hardship and constant fear. It was Miep Gies who saved Anne's diary and other papers "until Anne returns". Anne's father, Otto Frank, eventually returned to them at the end of the war and received Anne's papers with some closure. Highly Recommended.
    • 4/5
      I liked this book. At first, when my mom bought it for me, I was like, "I already read about Anne Frank. Everyone knows Anne Frank." But when I started reading, I learned things about Anne that I never knew about. Usually, the Anne Frank I read about is in her perspective, but this time it is in a friend's perspective, Miep Gies. This story was not only about Anne Frank's legacy, but the woman who made it live on, Miep. This book is recommended to people who think they know the full story.
    • 5/5
      I can't think of anyone who has not heard of Anne Frank or her diary that depicts the tragic story of the little girl who did not survive the holocaust. This is not another Anne Frank's Diary story, this is a memoir of a woman who met Anne Frank and her family during the horrors of Hitler's reign in Germany. This is the same woman who actually rescued the pages of the diary before it was trampled by the Germans when they were taken from their hiding place.The woman who is nicknamed Miep briefly touches on her childhood of being adopted by a Dutch family out of her Austrian home due to malnourishment, though not a direct fault of her biological family. Miep writes of her growing up in the Dutch school and then when she later works in an office for Otto Frank. Otto Frank is the father of Margot and Anne Frank, and in 1940 the girls were 14 and 10 years old when Miep had already socialized with them for a few years. At this point, Hitler was Fuhrer of Germany for 6 years and his Nazi ways were beginning to strike more serious fears with onlookers. Miep mentions when England and France had declared war on Germany; while not deeply affected politically yet by these events, Miep explains how she had not hated another person as much as she had begun to hate Hitler then.Miep details her personal life in this memoir, from her social life to advancing career in the growing office under Otto Frank and she writes in a casual tone of how she had reacted to the things going on around her. She realizes that the trouble in Germany has hit closer to home when her Austrian passport gets changed to a German passport complete with a Swastika stamp. Suddenly events turn for the worse and the raids on the Jewish people who had once found solace in the Netherlands were being pulled out of their homes and the streets, and taken to Hitler's camps. For years the war raged on, with the Jewish sympathisers being persecuted and tortured for information on the resistance. I was astonished and horrified as the story went on as to the treatment of all of the Dutch civilians.For several years Miep helped to hide the Frank family in the upper floors of the office building of the company that Miep had worked at for Otto Frank. She then became a source of food, friendship, news and entertainment as two families and an eighth man were hidden in the cramped quarters. The scrounging for food became a daily struggle for Miep to procure for herself and those she helped to hide, but she did it without complaining. The details of the war via the information waves were slow to come and sometimes inaccurate but still there was little hope. Finally they hear of the Allies, that the British were coming, that America had joined the war and there was at last a glimmer of hope that perhaps Hitler would be stopped. But it did not impact the horrific way of living that the people had to survive, and my heart broke for them as Miep details simply the hardships she and her friends endured.Otto Frank seems like a father figure to Miep and her husband, who was very calm, patient and exact with all things that occurred around him. I could feel the admiration Miep held for Otto. But Anne, how she affected Miep with her big saucer like round eyes, and how she probably haunted Miep ever time she closed her own eyes. The bond the two had shared was palpable and heartbreaking; despite the age differences, Anne and Miep were close and had respect for each other, their choices of friends were limited due to their situation. Miep speaks of the little characteristics of Anne that continue to make her a real person to us today, and modestly yet powerfully she tells this story of how Miep survived the war, but others did not.I learned about the ordeals the Dutch endured during the German Occupation, and I enjoyed looking at the pictures that were included of Miep, her friends and family, and Anne and the Frank family. I devoured this book even when my heart was breaking for Anne's family and yet I still wanted to know more of the compelling story. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in how one woman and her husband helped bring solace to many while risking their own lives to do so. Miep Gies was a wonderfully passionate woman, someone we can only hope to have on our side when sides needs to be chosen.Miep Gies writes the afterword in this newly reissued edition, as she reaches her 100th birthday, where she also dispels some of the facts that had misconstrued previously through Anne Frank's Diary. She writes with conviction and authority, and anyone who wants to learn more about the personal ordeals of the Holocaust, and Anne Frank, this is an absolute must read. She has toured the world telling the story, although at times it seems she would rather not. She realizes that this is a story that needs to be told, over and over, lest we forget the personal horrors of one dictator. I took Miep's advice and I have ordered "The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition" by Anne Frank. Although extremely sad, the story is still fascinating due to the nature of Anne Frank's personality, and the wonder of what was lost. Through Anne's diary, millions have felt her words and her story that should never be forgotten. And again, Miep has done the world a service by offering us her personal experiences with Anne, who is seen as one face of many who perished during the Holocaust.