When I was thirteen, the whole family moved to South Amsterdam, to the quarter where all the streets are named for rivers. Fortunately, her upstairs neighbour knew of another opportunity: she worked as a representative for Otto Frank's business and arranged for an interview with Otto, who was just setting up his Opekta business.

But in ''Anne Frank Remembered,'' Miep Gies offers not only a fascinating and deeply affecting personal memoir, but also a valuable new perspective on the entire tragedy. Miep Gies furthermore describes several events and statements made following the release of the first edition.

But once it began to be translated, its fame spread around the world, and since then, despite the various types of vulgarization to which the Anne Frank legend has been subjected, it has lost none of its force or luster.

Miep was 24 and had been jobless for several months — after losing her office position at a textile company in 1933 at a time of high unemployment and uncertainty — when she heard about a possible opening at Mr Frank’s company. As Gies recounted in her autobiography, van der Horst’s mother was hiding the Gieses’ Jewish landlady in her home, so when she asked the couple to hide her son, they “felt an obligation to reciprocate. The woman took off all my layers of clothes, removed the bow from my hair, and put me between the covers in the center of the other bed.Gies’s book gives a real sense of what it was like to live under enemy occupation when it was impossible to trust anyone.

Born into an impoverished Catholic family in Vienna in 1909, Gies was originally named Hermine Santrouschitz. Miep Gies - her original given name was Hermine - was born in Vienna in 1909, and sent to the Netherlands after World War I as part of a program for children suffering from malnutrition. Seller has stated it will dispatch the item within 1 working day upon receipt of cleared payment - opens in a new window or tab . The team behind the new Disney+ series, too, say they felt “huge responsibility” when creating the show. Anne noted as much in her diary, writing, “Miep is just like a pack mule, she fetches and carries so much.I could and did tell details that their parents and grandparents had chosen not to discuss with them. Before long she felt closer to the family who took care of her than to her natural parents; she stayed on, and by the time she was 16 it was accepted all around that she was Dutch by adoption.