Anne Frank's diaries , Miep Gies was the guardian of Anne's diaries.

This article is about Miep Gies who saved the diaries of Anne Frank from being lost when the Frank family were discovered in hiding and were arrested. Prior to this she had been one of the people who had helped the family to survive in hiding. Anne frank's diary has become world famous. Less well known are Anne's other writings which are now kept in a museum.

Miep Gies was one of the people who helped to hide Anne Frank and her family in Amsterdam from 1942 to 1944..

She was also the woman who became the guardian of Anne Frank's diary and papers.

Anne Frank's written account (her diary) has become one of the most well known written accounts of the war it was published first in 1947 and has been translated into many languages and the story it tells has been made into documentaries and a prize winning film.

Miep Gies lived to be one hundred and during her life time helped Anne and her family hide away from the Nazis. She was also the woman who hid Anne Frank's diaries away so that they were safe from destruction.

Miep Gies was an employee of Anne Frank's father. She was one of the people who helped to supply food to the family while they were hidden in annex above the family business in Amsterdam. Anne and seven others were hidden for two years, from 1942 to 1944. Anne Frank's diary account is one of the most famous records of the Holocaust.

When the family were arrested Mrs Gies had collected Anne's papers for safe keeping and had locked them away, in the hope that one day she would be able to give them back to her . Mrs Gies, kept Anne's written account safe until the war was over.

She returned them to Otto Frank, who survived the war, she also helped him compile the papers into a diary published in 1947.

Anne kept other note book journals apart from the famous diary.

One of them she called the "Book of Nice Sentences". In this book she copied her favourite sentences from the books she was reading. Writers such as Shakespeare, John Galsworthy, Goethe and from biographies of Florence Nightingale, painter Rubens, and the composer Franz Liszt are referred to.

Anne read Dutch, German, and some English.

The information about Anne's journals comes from reading information at the link (right). .

Anne Frank. The Writer. The Unfinished Story.

Otto Frank , Anne's father was the only member of the family to survive the Holocaust.

Anne Frank died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp three months before her 16th birthday. Margot, 19 her sister also died there and their mother Edith died at Auschwitz.

Miep Gies was not able to hand Anne's papers back to Ann as she had hoped but instead returned them to her father Otto Frank.

Otto Frank lived with Mr and Mrs Gies for a time after he returned.

The diaries were first published in the Netherlands in 1947 in an abridged version.

“Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl” .

The building in Amsterdam which the family hid in has become a museum.

Miep Gies was born Feb. 15, 1909. ..her name was Hermine Santrouschitz, her family were from Vienna.

When she was 11, she was sent to Leiden and a Dutch family there cared for and later adopted her. She was given the Dutch nickname Miep . This was because Austrian children were suffering from food shortages as a result of World War I.

In her memoir Miep Gies writes about how she felt when she read Anne Frank's diary.

(Reading it, was not something that she did at the time when she rescued it from the annexe, when the Frank family and their friends were taken away by the Gestapo). She felt that it was not her right to read the child's diary at that time.

This is what Miep Gies says in her memoir about reading the diary:

"The emptiness in my heart was eased. So much had been lost, but now Anne’s voice would never be lost. My young friend had left a remarkable legacy to the world."