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Miep en Jan Gies

Otto Frank admiring Miep and Jan Gies’s baby son Paul, 1951. Jan Gies had already become friends with the Frank family through his wife-to-be, Miep, before the war. While they are in hiding he often comes to the secret annexe, and he arranges ration coupons for the people in hiding.

In the weeks after the liberation Jan Gies is involved in taking care of returning camp inmates. He asks as many survivors as possible if they know anything about the Frank family’s fate. On 3 June 1945 he finally hears good news: a survivor has seen Otto Frank during his journey back to the Netherlands.

Eight years

Jan Gies hurries home to tell his wife the good news. Soon afterwards they see Otto walking up to their house. He has lost everything, yet he is unaware that his daughters have died. Miep and Jan Gies invite him to stay with them. He stays for nearly eight years. In April 1953 Otto Frank moves to Basel (Switzerland) where he marries again, to Fritzi Markovits, in November. Miep and Jan Gies regularly go to visit Otto and Fritzi Frank in Basel until Otto’s death in 1980.
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Today: 7 September 2010
Then: 6 September 1944

Arrival of the people from the secret annexe at Auschwitz. Hermann van Pels is killed soon afterwards in the gas chamber.

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