We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Recently I visited, for the first time, the annex where the Franks' and their fellow friends in hiding spent around two years avoiding the persecution of the Nazis.

With much new material on the betrayal of the Frank family and their attempts to leave for the US, this updated edition is now the definitive biography of Anne Frank 'Definitive' Choice 'Sensitive, serious and scrupulous' Sunday Telegraph Tracing Anne Frank's life from an early childhood in an assimilated family to her adolescence in German-occupied Amsterdam, Melissa Muller's biography, originally published in 1998, follows her life right up until her desperate end in Bergen Belsen. Many people know the story of what happened inside the annex from Anne’s diary, but what was happening outside, Miep and Jan were hiding other people in and around Amsterdam,” co-creator Joan Rater tells The Independent. Miep's courage has been recognised with awards and medals from countries and international organisations. Despite five children of his own, this man and his wife, although not well off by any means, took the attitude that where seven could eat, so could eight, and so they slowly revitalized their little hungry child from Vienna.It also contains a newly-written epilogue offering an update on the investigations into the betrayal of the Secret Annex. Some were officials, some were clergy; others were citizens of countries who united in their efforts to protect Jews.

The couple faced some difficulties, but they were married on 16 July 1941 so that she could obtain Dutch citizenship and thus evade deportation.In collaboration with Alison Leslie Gold, Gies wrote the book Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family in 1987. In 1924, the family moved to Amsterdam and Miep’s biological parents eventually decided that Miep was so much at home in the Netherlands that it would be better for her to stay there. On 30 July 2009, the Austrian Ambassador to the Netherlands, Wolfgang Paul, presented the Grand Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria to Gies at her home.

Martin Gilbert, the foremost British historian of the Holocaust, here presents the evidence collected over many years. Born into an impoverished Catholic family in Vienna in 1909, Gies was originally named Hermine Santrouschitz. Her books have been adapted for stage and screen and have been translated into twenty-three languages. So there’s this coming of age story on one side of the bookcase, and there’s another coming of age story on the other side.To prevent the Opekta workers from becoming suspicious, Gies tried not to enter the hiding place during office hours. The men arrested the eight people in hiding, as well as Kugler and Kleiman, but left Gies and Voskuijl behind.

The Last Secret of the Secret Annex: The Untold Story of Anne Frank, Her Silent Protector, and a Family Betrayal. It was medicine as much as the bread, the marmalade, the good Dutch milk and butter and cheese, the toasty temperature of the warm rooms. It was all a case of time, and her disappointment is enormous when she discovers that the discovery of the secret annex came too soon - just two months later and it is likely all would have survived. 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.Because of a program that had been set up by foreign working people for hungry Austrian children, a plan was devised that might rescue me from my fate. The couple’s only son, Paul Gies, died last year; his widow and children remain committed to preserving their grandparents’ legacy. Find signed collectible books: 'Meine Zeit mit Anne Frank: Der Bericht jener Frau, die Anne Frank und ihre Familie in ihrem Versteck versorgte, sie lange Zeit vor der Deportation . When we met with school children in Germany and Austria, some of whom were descendants of Nazis, some said to us, ‘Our parents won’t talk about what happened in the war. Gies was interviewed about her memories of hiding the Frank family for the 1995 documentary film Anne Frank Remembered by Jon Blair.