Miep Gies was an independent 24-year-old with a busy social calendar and a dance club membership when she began working for Anne Frank’s father Otto in 1933 at Opekta, his successful jam ...
STANDING pale as a ghost, Anne Frank shivered as she hauled stones ... Otto returned to Amsterdam and was given his daughter's diary by Miep Gies, who had helped them hide in the attic.
The house at 263 Prinsengracht (Prince’s Canal) in Amsterdam was built in 1635, more than three centuries before its most famous resident—Anne Frank--lived and hid there from the Nazi ...