Everyone who has heard of the Holocaust probably knows the famous Anne Frank. Anne Frank was a young Jewish girl who managed to hide from the Nazis in the 1940s. She wrote down her experiences in a diary until she was found, and is generally the best remembered Holocaust victim, but how did she survive? Who helped the Frank family hide and kept them alive while they were in hiding? The Jews sent to concentration camps were not the only courageous and suffering people. There were the rescuers and defenders of these persecuted people. One of these people was Miep Gies. Miep Gies was born on February 15, 1909 in Vienna, Austria as Hermine Santruschitz. She was a weak child, and due to food shortages and a growing family, she became malnourished and unhealthy. Fortunately, in the 1920s, a program was established to give Austrian children foster homes in the Netherlands while their home country tried to get back on its feet. Miep was chosen to be fostered by Laurens Nieuwenburg and his family. She was initially supposed to stay with that family for only three months, but due to her failing health and her growing attachment to her foster family, she stayed for over five years. After graduating high school, she became an office assistant at a textile company for just over six years. Then he found work at a jam company run by Mr. Otto Frank. Not only was Mr. Frank an excellent manager, but he was also said to be friends with everyone in his office. On 16 July 1941 Miep married Jan Gies and officially became a Dutch citizen on the same day. The following year, in June, Mr. Frank and his family, along with a small family called the Van Pels, went into hiding. ......center of card ......as also knighted by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands in 1997. Miep Gies died at the age of one hundred on 11 January 2010.Works CitedGies, Miep and Alison L. Gold. Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped Hide the Frank Family. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987. Web. December 10, 2013. Gies, Paul and Cindy Rodermond. "Interview with Miep Gies." Children's books for children of all ages and literacy levels | School. Np, 1998. Web. 10 December 2013. Gies, Paul, Elisa Mutsaers, Rene Mendel and Beter Engels Vertaalbureau. "Miep Gies :: it." Miep Gies :: Home. Np, nd Web. December 10, 2013."Miep Gies :: The arrest." Miep Gies :: Home. Np, 1998. Web. 11 December 2013. "The story of Miep Gies." Children's books for children of all ages and literacy levels | School. Np, nd Web. 10 December. 2013.