Who is Miep Gies? Miep Gies was born into a poor family in “Vienna, Austria” (The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust). As a result of this, she moved in with a Dutch family. She said, “In 1933, I lived with my adoptive parents, the Nieuwenhuises, at Gaaspstraat 25, sharing a small, cozy attic room with my adoptive sister, Catherina” (Gies 15). Miep’s birth name was Hermine, but she was given the Dutch nickname “Miep” and it stuck. When she reached her teenage years, she visited her birth parents. They…
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