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Anne Frank Remembered
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- Author: Miep Gies
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Release Date: April 1988
- ISBN-10: 0671662341
- ISBN-13: 9780671662349
- List Price: $14.00
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryShe found the diary and brought the world a message of love and hope. It seems as if we are never far from Miep's thoughts....Yours, Anne For the millions moved by Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, here at last is Miep's own astonishing story. For more than two years, Miep Gies and her husband helped hide the Franks from the Nazis. Like thousands of unsung heroes of the Holocaust, they risked their lives each day to bring food, news, and emotional support to the victims. From her own remarkable childhood as a World War I refugee to the moment she places a small, red-orange, checkered diary -- Anne's legacy -- in Otto Frank's hands, Miep Gies remembers her days with simple honesty and shattering clarity. Each page rings with courage and heartbreaking beauty. |
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Surprisingly disappointing effort
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There is no question that the reader can remain spellbound by the risk and sacrifice which Miep Gies undertook on behalf of the Frank family, and that underlying theme is inspirational, bordering on awe inspiring. Yet I found the overall work to be poorly written and unexpectedly boring.
I shall admit that I assumed that Miep's book would have the richness of detail which I found in the excellent DVD by the same name - one which I would highly recommend. That documentary, which includes ample interviews with Miep herself and various others, truly did show a 'larger picture' of Anne and her family. Most of even Miep's own contributions to the documentary are not contained in this book.
Most of Miep's reflections give a vivid, though hardly unique, picture of the hardships of the war years, focussing on herself, her husband, and several others who were providing or seeking 'hiding places.' There actually was little to 'flesh out' a picture of Anne Frank. Apparently no one had a clue as to much of what Anne was thinking as she composed her diary, and about all one learns of Anne from Miep is that she enjoyed celebrations, wrote a good deal, and had a vivacious nature.
Much of Miep's text deals with such difficulties as trying to obtain food - tragic, but very repetitive. There is hardly any information about those in hiding, and the general impression is that, though Miep was dedicated to her 'boss' Otto Frank and his family, she did not know them well, before or during the time of their hiding. This would seem unusual, since Miep does mention previous social contacts with the Franks, as well as her extended employment in their business - she probably knew much that was not shared. There are rare passages when Miep can capture tension, such as when her overnight stay at the Annex gives her some idea of the fright of those in hiding. But there is no insightful information about any of the Frank family or other inhabitants. We see Mrs Frank as pessimistic and somewhat taciturn - know that the dentist was disliked by Anne but cannot discover why - hear several references to Margot as very pretty. Full stop. Though Miep refers to daily visits and to Anne's speaking with her, the conversations must have been peripheral (nor is any content shared.) Apparently Miep knew nothing of, for example, Anne's infatuation with Peter, so prominent in the diary.
Despite the honourable loyalty Miep and Henk demonstrated, my admiration for this stemmed from knowing the circumstances, not from the book itself, which was largely dull. I suppose I had hoped for an extended picture of Anne and family based on the memories of one who knew them, but the information was often banal.
Great book
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This was a great book and filled in a few of the questions I had always had about Anne Frank. For it to be written by Miep added so much on a personal level that I loved. This book along with the Diary of Anne Frank should be required reading for the human race.
beautiful reflection
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This is a well written and thoroughly moving memoir. Read in conjunction with the diary of Anne Frank you get such a feel for people from two different backgrounds on the same side of an abominable war. I loved her humbleness and it gives great insight into the pressure on those who were protecting others.
"Not a day goes by..."
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Miep Gies does not consider herself to be a hero, although anyone familiar with her story would probably consider her one. In "Anne Frank Remembered" Gies (along with Alison Leslie Gold) tells of the role she played in hiding the Frank family in Amsterdam during WWII. She sets the stage with her own personal background and how she came to work for Mr. Frank, and the special connection that she almost instantaneously shared with Anne.
Thousands are familiar with the events that happened while the Franks were in hiding, thanks to the legacy of Anne's diary that Gies rescued when the families were finally captured and taken to concentration camps. Gies recalls what life was like in those days, when her husband played a role in the Dutch Resistance movement and they took a Jew in to hide in their own home while hiding the eight people at 263 Prinsengracht. Her story is one of almost unbelievable courage and audacity - to so boldly defy the German captors who invaded their land and to stand up against the evils that were being perpetrated against the Jews. Miep Gies believes that others would have done, and did do, the exact same thing that she did.
The story Gies has to tell expands upon the events put forth in Anne's diary. Although those in hiding knew the danger that awaited not only them but also their helpers, reading events from Miep's perspective adds another layer to the saga of the Frank family. One might wish that she expounded more upon the period after the war ended, but her focus is on Anne Frank first and foremost. So much hope was held out that Margot and Anne might make it. When news came that they didn't, it seems as if a part of Miep died, and it took her several years before she could bring herself to read Anne's diary. Even if these events are hard to speak about and hard to read, her story is a necessary addition to Anne Frank's legacy.
A true story of courage and compassion
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Millions of people around the world have been inspired and touched by the story of Anne Frank, the young Jewish girl, who spent two long years in hiding, with family and a few friends, in Amsterdam, from their Nazi persecutors, during the second World War, before they were discovered and shipped off tho their deaths in Auschwitz.
Twenty years ago Miep Gies (98 years old at the time of writing of this review) revealed her own courageous and generous role in hiding the Frank family and others, and providing them with food, companionship, and most of all hope.
She gives revealing insight into Anne's life and of her own.
Miep had been a hungry child refugee from Austria, just after the First World War, and passed her own experiences of generosity and compassion on.
We read of the Nazi ocupation of the Netherlands, the decrees and attacks against the Jews, and of the deportations and hidings.
Ultimately every man and women must ask what they would do, when a world goes mad.
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