Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family

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Part of the whole deed that they did, [it] wasn’t just [like] they grabbed somebody who’s about to be hit by a car; this went on for 25 months, day after day after day, that they had to keep that promise,” says Ms Gold, who stayed in Miep’s home on the night Jan died in 1993. Gies was interviewed about her memories of hiding the Frank family for the 1995 documentary film Anne Frank Remembered by Jon Blair.

At their apartment, close to the Merwedeplein where the Franks had lived before going into hiding, Gies and her husband Jan (who belonged to the Dutch resistance) also hid an anti-Nazi university student.It’s extremely well written, you really get a sense for how bad things got but also how they managed to find little glimmers of joy in amongst everything.

After transcribing sections for his family, Frank was persuaded of the value of Anne’s account of their ordeal and arranged for the book's publication in 1947. And thanks to Alison Leslie Gold for bringing Miep's story to us so that this horror of all horrors will never be forgotten. This updated edition includes the five missing pages from Anne Frank's diary, a number of new photographs, and brings to light many fascinating facts surrounding the Franks.By the beginning of 2002, more than 19,000 non-Jews had been recognized as Righteous (Among the Nations) by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum in Jerusalem. I'm so sorry for the Jewish people; those who endured the "worst" that could happen and those that live with its history.