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Miep Gies was a Dutch national, born on February 15, 1909, in Vienna, Austria. Her parents were Wilhelm and Mathilde Santruschitz. She was the youngest of four siblings, having two older brothers and one sister.
Over the two years from when she first started keeping a diary, Anne Frank sharpened her natural skills- and made sure the updated version showcased that growth. In addition to the entries she edited for
With 500 square feet of space, there were only so many spots in the Secret Annex where Anne Frank could find some peace and quiet to be alone with her thoughts. Sometimes, she’d go upstairs
Any time Anne Frank sat down with her diary, in her right hand was the fountain pen she received as a gift from her maternal grandmother when she was 9. Four vears later. in the
At the height of the diary’s popularity-as The Diary of a Young Girl film arrived in theaters-Holocaust deniers came out in opposition, going as far as to dispute its very authenticity. In 1959, Otto Frank
At dawn on May 10, 1940, German paratroopers descended on the shores of Rotterdam, 50 miles away from Amsterdam, as part of an orchestrated invasion of the Netherlands. For five long days, Dutch troops armed
