Miep Gies was young, carefree, and opinionated—at a time when opinions could be dangerous. When her boss, Otto Frank, asked her to help hide his family from the Nazis during World War II, she didn’t hesitate
was a recently married young office worker living in Amsterdam in 1942. As German occupiers tightened their grip on the city, Gies’s boss, Otto Frank, asked her to hide him and his family from the Nazis, who were sending Jews to concentration camps. For the next two years, Gies risked her life daily to smuggle food to the Franks and four others concealed in secret rooms above Otto’s business.
Miep’s extraordinary kindness was part of a circle of selfless deeds. She had already known the ravages of a world war. Twenty-two years before the Franks went into hiding, Miep’s desperate parents had sent her, at age 11, starving and ill, from their home in Vienna to a foster family in Leiden, Netherlands. There, she recovered, flourished, and eventually met the people she would then help. Miep Gies was young, carefree, and opinionated—at a time when opinions got you killed.
In Amsterdam, 263 Prinsengracht is now known as the Anne Frank House. Before the German occupation, its ground floor held Opekta, which sold pectin to make jam. As it became harder for Jews to leave the country, Otto began outfitting the attic for shelter.Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited.Rater turned that memory of a girl’s carefree spirit into a flashback scene: Anne in 1941, on Miep and Jan Gies’s wedding day.
Everything on-screen is rendered as accurately as possible. Period-specific costumes are intentionally threadbare, as they would have been during wartime. Although glamour might seem frivolous given the constant threat of death, the women in hiding “wanted to keep up appearances,” hair and makeup designer Davina Lamont says. A dash of lipstick was an attempt at seeming normal, when nothing was.
The girl who wanted to be a famous writer became one, of course. Her diary uniquely revealed the heart of a typical teen and the truth of the Holocaust, because readers who found the extermination of six million people unfathomable could relate to one girl.
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