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Miep Gies

1909 - 2010

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Hermine "Miep" Gies (Dutch: [mip ˈxis]; née Santrouschitz; 15 February 1909 – 11 January 2010) was one of the Dutch citizens who hid Anne Frank, her family (Otto, Margot, Edith) and four other Dutch Jews (Fritz Pfeffer, Hermann van Pels, Auguste van Pels, Peter van Pels) from the Nazis in an annex above Otto Frank's business premises during World War II. She was Austrian by birth, but in 1920, at the age of eleven, she was taken in as a foster child by a Dutch family in Leiden to whom she became very attached. Although she was only supposed to stay for six months, this stay was extended to one year because of frail health, after which Gies chose to remain with them, living the rest of her life in the Netherlands. In 1933, Gies began working for Otto Frank, a Jewish businessman who had moved with his family from Germany to the Netherlands in the hope of sparing his family from Nazi persecution. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Miep Gies is the 876th most popular writer (up from 923rd in 2019), the 224th most popular biography from Austria (up from 227th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Austrian Writer.

Miep Gies was a Dutch woman who helped hide Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Miep Gies ranks 876 out of 7,302. Before her are Georg Brandes, Thietmar of Merseburg, Thomas Harris, Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, Guido Cavalcanti, and Ibn al-Muqaffa'. After her are Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz, Jerzy Kosiński, Laura de Noves, Danilo Kiš, Varlam Shalamov, and James May.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Miep Gies ranks 36. Before her are Aleksandar Ranković, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Fred Perry, Oldřich Nejedlý, Colonel Tom Parker, and Marinus van der Lubbe. After her are Juan Vicente Pérez, Teiichi Matsumaru, John Fante, Leo Fender, Alain Poher, and Virginia Apgar. Among people deceased in 2010, Miep Gies ranks 36. Before her are Gennady Yanayev, Bruno Cremer, Viktor Chernomyrdin, Jean Simmons, Alice Miller, and Dino De Laurentiis. After her are Vladimir Arnold, Joan Sutherland, Francisco Varallo, Henryk Górecki, Stjepan Bobek, and Arthur Penn.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Miep Gies ranks 224 out of 1,424. Before her are Joseph Ferdinand of Bavaria (1692), Franz Xaver Süssmayr (1766), Maria Theresa of Austria (1801), Maria Anna of Austria (1683), Albert VI, Archduke of Austria (1418), and Georg von Peuerbach (1423). After her are Gerhard Berger (1959), Mercédès Jellinek (1889), Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg (1865), Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen (1817), Catherine of Austria, Queen of Poland (1533), and Erich von Stroheim (1885).

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Among WRITERS In Austria

Among writers born in Austria, Miep Gies ranks 20. Before her are Maria Leopoldina of Austria (1797), Hermann Broch (1886), Ingeborg Bachmann (1926), Otto of Freising (1114), Edward Bernays (1891), and Franz Grillparzer (1791). After her are August Kubizek (1888), Božena Němcová (1820), Karl-Maria Kertbeny (1824), Peter Altenberg (1859), Joseph Mohr (1792), and Christine Nöstlinger (1936).

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