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

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He asked Miep if she would be willing to help him and his family if they had to go into hiding in the Secret Annex. The two quickly developed a close rapport, discussing the worsening political crisis in the Franks’ home country of Germany.

Our quarter was a quiet area of South Amsterdam known as the River Quarter because the streets were named after Dutch and other European rivers whose lower courses flowed through the Netherlands to the sea, like the Rhine, the Maas, the Jeker. This is the biography of the very courageous woman who, with her husband, did most in the effort to save the Frank and other families and faced the hard slog of caring for them and finding food.It's hard to see God in all of this, but when I think about it, I see His hand in those who risked it all to save others. And one of the things that was the most beautiful to me, in a way, about the whole thing, was: This was about friendships.

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. Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages. Her story focuses on Anne Frank's plight, that of her immediate family and of the other three persecuted Jews who hid for over two years in the secret annexe in Prinsengracht, Amsterdam. Kuno van der Horst, a 23-year-old student, went into hiding with the Gies family because he had refused to sign a declaration of loyalty to the Nazis.If you found Anne's diary an interesting read then this is a must have to allow you to fill in the gaps. What does Barbara Rosenblat bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book? The team behind the new Disney+ series, too, say they felt “huge responsibility” when creating the show.

Had I read it,” wrote Gies in her autobiography, “I would have had to burn the diary because it would have been too dangerous to people whom Anne had written about.The next morning the same woman came to the room, dressed me in clean clothes, and took me downstairs. 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. I remembered it being just a week or so when, in reality, it was more like the war ended weeks after their demise in the camps; which seems to be a more common thread in the holocaust literature I have read.