![]() ![]() Miep still wanted to help, she couldn’t let the Franks down now. This was at a great risk to herself, and it was only because the arresting officer was from her home city of Vienna, that she escaped arrest herself – because the officer was from Miep’s community she was safe. Miep had been truly courageous for hiding the Franks and their friends for all of this time. Having been betrayed, the hiding place was found and the Franks were arrested and everyone was taken away. One morning in August 1944, Miep was sitting at her desk when she looked up and saw an officer with a gun he had come to arrest everyone in hiding. ‘They were powerless they didn’t know where to turn… We did our duty as human beings: helping people in need.’ She avoided visiting the hiding place during office hours so that other people she worked with would not grow suspicious and those in hiding were asked to keep as quiet as possible during the day. Sometimes she would hide other things under her coat. Miep sourced food from different places and would make several trips each day so she never had to carry more than one or two bags at a time. She did everything possible to avoid being caught and didn’t even tell her own parents what she was doing. Miep knew that if she was found helping a Jewish family, she could be arrested. During this time, whilst hidden away, Otto’s daughter Anne kept a diary of her thoughts about what it was like for a young girl to live in one room for all that time, always living in fear. It was Miep Gies, Otto’s employee and friend who helped them stay hidden and safe for over two years. As well as the Frank family, some of Otto’s Jewish friends also hid here as they needed somewhere safe to hide too. So on 6 July 1942, Otto and his family went to the upper rear rooms of his office building where he had created a hiding space for them, a secret room. Otto knew he had to hide his family to keep them safe. Soon it was no longer safe for Otto and his family in Amsterdam. Jewish people across Europe were being treated unfairly and were losing many of their rights. ![]() Germany had become dangerous for Jews and Otto thought Holland would be safer. Otto had moved to Holland from Germany in the 1930s with his wife Edith and daughters Margot and Anne. When she was older, Miep started working for a Jewish man called Otto Frank. Miep’s parents thought that this was the best thing for her and that Holland would be a safe place for her to be. In 1920 a Dutch family offered to look after her and help her get better. During World War One, when she was very young, she didn’t have enough food and as a result, Miep often became ill. Miep was born over a hundred years ago in 1909, in Vienna. You can download a printable version of the case study here This educational resource for secondary school aged students tells the story of Miep Gies, the woman who supported Anne Frank and her family when they were in hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam. International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.Political opponents and trade unionists.Learn about the Holocaust and genocides Expand dropdown.Organise a youth HMD activity Expand dropdown.One Day competition: Terms and Conditions.One Day competition guidelines and criteria.Guidelines for Light up the darkness participants.Take part in Holocaust Memorial Day Expand dropdown.What is Holocaust Memorial Day? Expand dropdown.Learn about the Holocaust and genocides.Foundation for Women, and the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU.Search for something Submit search query Search Funding for the exhibition was provided by the Asian Women Giving Circle, a donor advised fund of the Ms. Wagner Labor Archives and the exhibition is hosted in the Storefront for Ideas, an initiative of Immigrant Social Services (ISS), made possible in part by the support of Chung Pak Local Development Corporation and the NYC City Council AAPI Community Support Initiative. ![]() The project was developed in partnership with the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU and the NYU Tamiment Library & Robert F. ![]() Included in the exhibit are recorded interviews, shared stories, and artifacts documenting the themes of mutual aid, community care, economic impacts, interracial solidarities, disability politics, and experimentations in mourning, both for our futures and our pasts. On view: Wednesdays-Saturdays, 1:00-6:00 p.m.Īrchive as Memorial is an exhibition organized by members of A/P/A Voices: A COVID-19 Public Memory Project, a volunteer team of Asian American and Pacific Islander cultural workers, oral historians, educators, caretakers, and activists who have worked collaboratively since lockdown in March of 2020 to document the COVID-19 pandemic and the myriad ways it has impacted Asian/Pacific/American communities in New York and beyond. ![]()
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