Miep Gies was born on 15 February in Vienna (Austria) as Hermine Santrouschitz. The Santrouschitz family was Catholic and not well-off. Because there was not a lot of food available after the First World War, Miep even became malnourished. Her family therefore decided to make use of a relief project for Austrian children: in December they put year-old Miep on the train to the Netherlands to become healthier. Miep ended up in Leiden, where the Nieuwenburg family lovingly received her. In , the family moved to Amsterdam and Miep’s biological parents eventually decided that Miep was so much at home in the Netherlands that it would be better for her to stay there. Her foster parents agreed. When Miep turned 18, she started working as a typist in an embroidery and pleating workshop. When the crisis hit six years later, she lost her job. Fortunately, her upstairs neighbour knew of another opportunity: she worked as a representative for Otto Frank's business and arranged for an interview with Otto, who was just setting up his Opekta business. Miep was hired. As soon as she had mastered the jam-making process, she was prom
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The Gies family visiting Otto Frank in Basel (Switzerland), summer of When Miep Gies (then still called Santruschitz) first met Otto Frank for the job interview at his Nederlandsche Opekta company in the late summer of , they immediately took to each other. Otto Frank decided to hire Miep to replace a sick employee. When this Miss Heel reported back for work a few months later, Miep stayed on. She very much enjoyed her work at the office. Of course she did not discuss personal matters with her boss, but he had told her that his wife and two young daughters were still staying with his mother-in-law in Aachen, Germany. As soon as they found a house in Amsterdam to live in, the entire family would come over. Although he didn't express it, Miep sensed that he felt lonely without his family.
Whereas personal matters were discussed little at the office, world affairs all the more. As Miep remembers: ‘Mr. Frank and I quickly established a rapport as well, discovering our common passion for politics. We found ourselves on the same side of things. Although I had been brought up not to hate, I disapproved of the fanatic Adolf Hitler, who had recently seized power in Germany.
Miep turns Dutch and stays on with her foster parents
Declaration of Edith Frank's ation:
Zutphen 6 November,
I hereby declare that Mrs Edith Frank died by my side in the concentration camp of Birkenau, at Auschwitz in Poland.
I was there to witness it, so I can attest to it.
[signature]
Portrait of Miep Gies in the mid sAfter Miep Santruschitz left school at the age of 18, she first found a job as office assistant at a textile company. She worked there for six years, until she was laid off in on account of the economic crisis. Now aged 24, she remained unemployed for a few months, since it was difficult to find a new job. But she was lucky: an upstairs neighbor, who worked as a sales representative, told her of a temporary vacancy at one of her permanent clients, the Nederlandsche Opekta company, specialized in the trade of Opekta, a substance used in the household production of jam. The neighbor arranged an interview with Mr. Otto Frank, the company's director, established at Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal in Amsterdam. On a Monday morning she rode her bicycle to that address, wearing a carefully ironed, self-made dress and blouse with high heel shoes, and her hair done up according to the latest Hollywood fashion with a loose knot in her neck. Her friends said she looked like the American film star Norma Shearer, and she wore high heels to compensate for her slight length of just meters.
Two passport photos of Otto Frank, ca. She was received cordially at the
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