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Miep Gies
Dutch citizen who hid Anne Frank (1909–2010)
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| Born | Hermine Santrouschitz 15 February 1909 Vienna, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 11 January 2010(2010-01-11) (aged 100) Hoorn, Netherlands |
| Known for | Hiding Dutch Jews, including Anne Frank and her family, from the Nazis; keeping Anne's diary |
| Spouse | Jan Gies (m. 1941; died 1993) |
| Children | 1 |
| Website | miepgies.com |
Hermine "Miep" Gies (Dutch:[mipˈxis];[a]née Santrouschitz; 15 February 1909 – 11 January 2010) was one of the Dutch citizens who hid Anne Frank, her family (Otto, Margot, Edith) and 4 other Dutch Jews (Fritz Pfeffer, Hermann van Pels, Auguste van Pels, Peter van Pels) from the Nazis in an annex above Otto Frank'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 in Leiden to whom she became very attached. Although she was only supposed to stay for six months, this stay was extended to one year because of frail health, after which Gies chose to remain with them, living the rest of her life in the Netherlands.
In 1933, Gies began working for Otto Frank
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Fritz Pfeffer
German physician
Not to be confused with Fritz Pfeiffer.
Friedrich "Fritz" Pfeffer (30 April 1889 – 20 December 1944) was a Germandentist and Jewishrefugee who hid with Anne Frank and her family and the Van Pels family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. He perished in the Neuengamme concentration camp in Northern Germany. Pfeffer was given the pseudonymAlbert Dussel in Frank's diary, and remains known as such in many editions and adaptations of the publication.
Early life
[edit]Fritz Pfeffer was born in Gießen, Germany, one of the six children of Ignatz Pfeffer and Jeannette Hirsch-Pfeffer, who lived above their clothing and textiles shop at 6 Marktplatz in Giessen. After completing his education, Pfeffer trained as a dentist and jaw surgeon, obtained a license to practice in 1911 and opened a surgery the following year in Berlin. He served in the German army during the First World War.
In 1926, Pfeffer married Vera Bythiner (31 March 1904 – 30 September 1942), who was born in Posen in Imperial Germany (now Poznań, Poland). The marriage produced a son, Werner Peter Pfeffer (3 April 1927 – 14 February 1995), but the couple divorced in 1932. Pfeffer was granted custody of the boy and raised him alone until November