Miep Gies
Hermine "Miep" Gies (née Santruschitz; 15 February 1909 – 11 January 2010) was one of the Dutch citizens who hid Anne Frank, her family (Otto Frank, Margot Frank, Edith Frank-Holländer) and four other Jews (Fritz Pfeffer, Hermann van Pels, Auguste van Pels, Peter van Pels) from the Nazis in an annex above Anne's father's business premises during World War II.
Quotes
- I myself am just an ordinary woman. I had a lot of choices
- I don't want to be considered a hero. Imagine young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero? I was not. I was just an ordinary housewife and secretary.
- Miep Gies, who helped hide Anne Frank, dies at 100 (January 12, 2010)
- (Gies was asked if Anne Frank would have been in love with Peter (Van Pels) forever.)
- Gies:No!
- (Audience laughs)
- Gies:Because if you read in the diary Anne was going to Peter in the beginning because she had nobody to speak with(out) him and she grew up, the love came but later on you and see she wrote not as much about Peter because Peter has not the same...high as Anne.
- (Gies and the Professor talk to each other in German)
- Professor (Rolf?) Wolfswinkle:Miep thinks that Peter was not as intelligent as Anne.
- (Audience laughs)
- Professor Wolfswinkle:So, so the relationship would not have lasted.
- Gies:No.
- (Audience laughs)
- Miep Gies 1994 Wallenberg Lecture