Miep Gies Death
Miep passed away on June 11, 2010 at the age of 101 in Hoorn, Netherlands. Miep's cause of death was illness.
When did Miep Gies die?
June 11, 2010How did Miep Gies die? What was the cause of death?
IllnessHow old was Miep Gies when died?
101Where did Miep Gies die? What was the location of death?
Hoorn, Netherlands
Miep Gies Birthday and Date of Death
Miep Gies was born on February 15, 1909 and died on June 11, 2010. Miep was 101 years old at the time of death.
Birthday: February 15, 1909
Date of Death: June 11, 2010
Age at Death: 101
Miep Gies - Biography
Hermine Santruschitz (15 February 1909 – 11 January 2010), better known as Miep Gies was one of the Dutch citizens who hid Anne Frank, her family and four other Jews from the Nazis in an annex above Anne's father's business premises during World War II. She was Austrian by birth, but in 1920, at the age of eleven, she was taken in as a foster child by a Dutch family to whom she became very attached. Although she was initially only to stay for six months, this stay was extended to one year because of frail health, after which she chose to remain with them, living the rest of her life in the Netherlands. In 1933 she began working for Otto Frank, a businessman who had moved with his family from Germany to the Netherlands in hopes of sparing his family Nazi persecution because they were Jewish. Gies became a close, trusted friend of the family and was a great support to them during the two years they spent in hiding. She retrieved Anne Frank's diary after the family was arrested and kept the papers safe until Otto Frank returned from Auschwitz in 1945, and learned of his younger daughter's death. Together with Alison Leslie Gold Gies authored the book Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family, first published in 1987.
