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Summary: the best books ever
Review: I think this will be a great book,I have not read it but let me tell you the rest of the books are the best books I have ever read. I hope if you read these books you will read the rest. My complements to the author.
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Summary: Wonderful and sad--a perfect companion to the diary...
Review: I was amazed to find out that Miep Gies and her husband, Henk, were so involved in different aspects of the resistance movement in Amsterdam. They are famous for helping those in the "Secret Annex", but they also hid someone with them in their personal residence. Henk was an incredible man who used his government job to help the Jews as much as he could. The story is a sad one, but it leaves you with a feeling of hope. Knowing that there are people like Miep and Henk in the world is a comfort. Read this book.
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Summary: A special remembrance
Review: I was deeply moved and touched by this book. Miep Gies is perhaps the last person alive who knew the Frank family well during that pivotal time when the family were in hiding. As someone who has followed the Anne Frank story all my life it was something special to read this story about someone who could add more pieces to the puzzle of Anne's life. Miep and her collaborator Alison Leslie Gold have done a wonderful job in bringing to life in clear crisp prose Miep's role in helping the family during that terrible time when barbarity had stood the world on its head. One point of interest is the inconsistency of Miep's report of events, with others, on that awful day of the family's arrest in August 1944. Chapter 15 of Miep's book should be read closely with the very precise account of that day contained in "The Diary of Anne Frank: the Critical Edition." This is not to imply that Miep was in anyway involved in the betrayal of the family. Clearly, she wasn't. Miep's inconsistences just make her book more realistic, more readable, more earthy. Her book becomes an account not of a hero, a saint or a fighter for a cause. Miep was simply a friend who cared.
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Summary: The last one to bear witness
Review: I'd read Anne's diary at least 10 times by the time I read Miep's book. I felt as though I knew Miep already from Anne's descriptions of her and her husband. I thought it was really interesting to hear the stories Anne told from Miep's point of view. It isn't very often that we are asked to be heroic and I wonder how many of us would have put ourselves in the danger that the helpers did. I would be honored to meet Miep someday; she and all the helpers were true heroes.
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Summary: The other side of Anne Frank.
Review: If you want to better understand the hiding experience of Anne Frank, you have to read this book. To experience how man can live in such difficult surrounding, to discover how
man can think about the benefit of others in such threatening environment.
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Summary: A Familiar Story Told in and Interesting Way
Review: Many people are familiar with the story of Anne Frank and her family during the Holocaust. But in the book Anne Frank Remembered, you get the unique opportunity of hearing the story from the woman who helped to hide the Frank family during this horrible time, Miep Gies. Mr. Frank and his wife and two daughters, Anne and Margot, moved to the Netherlands to escape the Nazis. Miep was an employ of Mr. Frank in the Netherlands. When the Nazis entered the Netherlands, they began to get worried. So Miep and her husband agreed to hide the family in the attic of Mr. Franks office building. They had to be very secretive about all of this. All of the trash that the Frank family accumulated had to be burned, and they couldn't walk at all during the day in case someone heard their footsteps. There was also a small window in the attic that they couldn't go near in case someone saw them. Even with all the precautions, they were still eventually caught, but never forgotten by Miep. I thought that this was an outstanding book. It tells a familiar story in a way that it has never been told before. Hearing it from the woman who helped hide the Franks was amazing. It is by far one of the best books I have ever read.
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Summary: A haunting story that will stay with you for a long time!
Review: Miep Gies has done an astounding job and written a really wonderful book. I own this book, originally having bought it when it first came out 14 years ago. I read it then, put it away, and recently got it back out when the Anne Frank miniseries was on t.v. I reread it, and it was just like reading it for the first time! You get to know more about the Frank family and those in hiding with them. You learn more about them on a personal level. Miep also tells us about herself and her background. She really helps us feel what it was like to be a Jew in hiding. And she describes the days before, during and after the war so vividly. It's a great lesson in the circumstances and political atmosphere of how Hitler's Third Reich came to power. Miep says that she is not a hero; that she only did what a lot of people did, but after reading this book I cannot agree with her. What she and her husband did was extremely heroic and the Frank family was truly blessed to have them. She and her book are truly a treasure.
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Summary: Miep the Hero
Review: Miep Gies is a woman who is always trying to help those in need. She started work for a man named Otto Frank. He had a wife and two daughters named Anne and Margot. They were Jewish and had moved from Basel, Switzerland to escape from the Germans. Instantly, they became friends. When the Jews were made to leave their homes to go to "labor camps", the Frank's became scared. They decided to go into hiding and wanted to know if Miep would help. She said "yes", and right away they left to their new place to stay. Miep helped eight people stay with the Frank's while she and her husband, Henk, helped other Jews in need. Food was hard to find for so many people. They both tried their best for their friends. Miep always visted them while Henk showed up less often. They were always scared that the Germans would catch their friends. After almost three years in hidding the Germans discovered the hiding place. After the war ended only Mr. Frank came back. It was very hard for him to deal with his loved ones being gone. But they did find Anne's diary, which she wrote in many times every day. At first neither of them read it, but after a while Mr. Frank read the diary. I thought the book was terrific. It told me so much about what happened in Miep's life. She was a very good woman who helped so many people. It told us about her life befor, during, and after the war. The book has a very sad tone. The people in the annex are very scared that they will get caught by the Germans. They are very frightened that the end will come soon. They have to live with the fear of trying not to be noisey so no one will hear them. They have to go threw alot of things that might show that their are people in hiding. This makes them very sad.
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Summary: Such a strong woman...
Review: Miep Gies should be remembered as one of the greatest women of all time. Out of sheer love, love for people, she helped in hiding the Frank family along with a few others. The book tells the entire story of Miep Gies, from her first employment by Anne's father until the final liberation of Holland. The story is told honestly and without a feeling of ego or of her deliberately sounding like the brave woman she was. And it's told in such a way, that you feel a kind of suspense as if you didn't know of the tragedy coming. Miep is unrelenting in her portrayal of the grimness of life during the German occupation of Holland. It was worse of all for the Jewish people, but it was also hard on the Dutch people. Reading this is an education for those of us who have no idea of how it is to live in an occupied country. However, you feel the hope in the ending. Also, one realizes how truly important a book that Anne Frank's diary was. This is a very moving and a most important book on its own.
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Summary: I was amazed by Anne's attitude and Miep's courage.
Review: Since reading this book I have come to the realization that Anne is even more a hero than I had once imagined.
Miep adds insight to Anne's personality that are invaluable to one who wants to understand more about this extraordianry young woman.
Anne's story continues to inspire readers worldwide because Miep had the insight to tuck the little checkered diary into her desk drawer, safe, until Otto returned.
Not only is Anne a hero, but the woman who hid her is every bit as remarkable.
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