Miep Gies (Anne Frank diary guardian)

[Behind the Aegis]

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DU LBN Anne Frank diary guardian Miep Gies dies aged 100

[EFerrari]

1. I don't know how many times I read the Diary

when I was a kid. Maybe ten times. What a wonderful human being Miep was. May we try to do as well.

[murielm99]

2. Have you ever read her autobiography?

I read it about ten years ago. The first sentence is, "I am not a hero."

Miep was affected by her experience in ways that she states with simple directness. The reader has to let it sink in, then think about it for awhile.

She and her husband did not wish to have children. The horrors they had seen had left them unwilling to bring a defenseless child into the world. They did have one child, a son. She discusses her reluctant motherhood in the book.

Miep did not believe in God. She said that the war experience destroyed her belief in a deity.

She thought about her war experiences every day of her life.

She said that other Dutch citizens did much more than she did. She describes herself as ordinary. I understand what she was trying to say. But if Miep was ordinary, I want to be ordinary, too.

[Rhiannon12866]

3. Wow. Beautifully stated... K&R!

O8)

[whathehell]

4. A great woman...Well into here eighties she went on speaking engagements, sharing

of her experiences in the holocaus and speaking of the dangers of intolerance.

Rest in Peace, Miep Gies.

[Berry Cool]

5. I am so sad to hear she is finally gone.

But if anyone can be said to have lived a good, long life, it is she.

There will be a new star in the sky tonight. Look for it.