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This is Anne Frank on the balcony of her home on Merwedeplein in Amsterdam, where she lived before going into hiding. Th...
19/10/2026

This is Anne Frank on the balcony of her home on Merwedeplein in Amsterdam, where she lived before going into hiding. This photo was taken in May 1941. A lot would change in Anne's life that month.

By the end of May 1941, Jews were prohibited from visiting beaches, parks, swimming pools and hotels.

Anne Frank and the others in the Annex were helped by six people: Victor Kugler, Johannes Kleiman, Miep Gies, Jan Gies, ...
16/10/2026

Anne Frank and the others in the Annex were helped by six people: Victor Kugler, Johannes Kleiman, Miep Gies, Jan Gies, Johan Voskuijl and Bep Voskuijl.

Miep Gies is mainly known as the woman who saved Anne Frank's diary. She is one of the best-known helpers from the Second World War.

Who was Miep Gies?

On this day in 1933, Miep Gies started work at Opekta, the company that Otto Frank had founded in Amsterdam a few months earlier. Opekta was a company which was licensed to sell pectin. Opekta was also the name of the gelling agent used to make
homemade jam.

Opekta was located at Prinsengracht 263. The annex of the building became the hiding place of the Frank family, the Van Pels family and Fritz Pfeffer.

When Anne’s sister Margot received a call-up to report for labour camp on 5 July 1942, Otto and Edith Frank decided to go into hiding the very next day. They called Miep and Jan so that they could bring some belongings for the hiding place. The next morning, Miep picked Margot up. Together they cycled to Otto’s office on the Prinsengracht. Otto, Edith and Anne walked there.

Once in the hiding place, a certain routine soon emerged. The helpers divided up the tasks: Miep took care of the vegetables and meat.

In her diary, Anne wrote: ‘Miep is just like a little packhorse, lugging all sorts of things about. Almost every day she has scrounged up vegetables somewhere and brings everything back on her bike in large shopping bags.’ Miep also brought library books for those in hiding.

On the morning of Friday 4 August 1944, police officers raided Prinsengracht 263. The eight people in hiding and two of their helpers, Johannes Kleiman and Victor Kugler, were arrested.

When Miep and Bep later went to the Annex to see if they could save some personal belongings of the people in hiding, they found Anne's notebooks and papers on the floor.

Miep and Bep gathered everything up and Miep decided to keep the papers in a desk drawer, hoping one day to be able to return them to Anne. When it became clear that Anne would not return, Miep gave Anne's diary papers to Otto Frank. He was the only one of the eight people hiding in the Annex to survive the Holocaust.

For years, Miep’s life after the war was connected to Anne’s legacy. Countless were the times she told students her stories about the Annex and her memories of Anne. Every year on 4 August, Miep and Jan Gies commemorated the loss of their friends.

Miep realised that they had done all they could. ‘In that dark time of the war, we did not stand on the sidelines, but extended our hands to help others. Risking our own lives. We could not have done more.’

Miep passed away at the age of 100, in 2010.

From Anne Frank’s diary, we know that her sister Margot also kept a diary. Unlike Anne’s diary, Margot’s diary regrettab...
14/10/2026

From Anne Frank’s diary, we know that her sister Margot also kept a diary. Unlike Anne’s diary, Margot’s diary regrettably did not survive.

Anne wrote on 14 October 1942: ‘... she asked if she could read my diary sometime, I said yes at least bits of it, and then I asked if I could read hers.’

12/10/2026

Before Anne Frank had to go into hiding, she lived here with her parents and her sister Margot.
From 1933 to 1942, Merwedeplein in Amsterdam was their home.

In this bedroom, Anne and Margot shared not only a room, but also their daily lives. A room for dreams, laughter and the little moments that make childhood special. Anne also wrote in her diary in this room. Until the world around them changed.

When the Netherlands was occupied by N**i Germany in 1940, it became increasingly unsafe for Jewish families. In 1942, the Frank family went into hiding. Anne and Margot left their bedroom and their home, not knowing that they would never return. In February 1945 they were murdered at concentration camp Bergen-Belsen.

This school photo of Anne Frank was taken in 1940, her final year of primary school. While Anne went to school and spent...
10/10/2026

This school photo of Anne Frank was taken in 1940, her final year of primary school. While Anne went to school and spent time with her friends, events took place that would severely impact her life.

On 10 May 1940, N**i Germany invaded the Netherlands. The N**is introduced laws and regulations that made the lives of Jews extremely difficult. For example, Jews could no longer visit parks, cinemas, or non-Jewish shops. The rules meant that more and more places became off-limits to Anne.

After isolating the Jewish population, the N**is started deportations to concentration and extermination camps. Anne’s parents decided that it was time to go into hiding with their two daughters, to escape persecution by the N**is.

Anne brought her diary to the hiding place, where she documented her thoughts, worries and experiences. She wrote her last diary entry on 1 August 1944. Three days later, the hiding place was discovered. Of the eight people who had been hiding in the Annex, only Anne’s father survived the Holocaust.

Have you read Anne Frank’s diary?

09/10/2026

Miep Gies was one of the six people who helped those in hiding in the Annex. For over two years, she helped Anne Frank, her family and four other Jews by bringing them food and other necessities.

She tried to keep them safe from persecution by the N**is. But on 4 August 1944, the Annex was discovered and the people in hiding were arrested.

After the arrest, she found Anne's diary papers and kept them safe. She hoped to return them to Anne one day.

In an interview, Miep was asked why she decided to help. She did not hesitate for a moment and knew straight away that she wanted to help, because these people were in danger. After the arrest, there was a sense of disbelief, but also the realisation that there was nothing more they could have done. They had protected others, at the risk of their own lives.

Did you know this about Miep Gies?

Even before the war, Anne Frank was collecting pictures of film stars and postcards. In 1940, she had more than 800 card...
06/10/2026

Even before the war, Anne Frank was collecting pictures of film stars and postcards. In 1940, she had more than 800 cards.

When she went into hiding in 1942, her collection went with her to the hiding place.
To brighten up her small room in the Annex, Anne stuck pictures of film stars, postcards and other images on the walls at the beginning of her time in hiding. She continued adding pictures later, sometimes on top of existing ones.

At first sight, it seems like no more than a mixed collection, from film stars to royalty and children to art. But the pictures tell a story. They give an impression of Anne’s world when she was in hiding, of her dreams and of her changing interests as she grew older.

Anne wrote on 11 July 1942:
‘Our little room with its stern walls was very bare until now; thanks to Father, who had brought my whole collection of picture postcards and movie stars here beforehand, I have been able to treat the walls with a pot of glue and a brush and so turn the entire room into one big picture. That makes it look a lot more cheerful.’

During her time in hiding, Anne became interested in Greek and Roman mythology and especially in art history. We see this in the illustrations of artworks that she placed over photos of film stars and colourful cards of children.

Anne dreamt of studying art history after the war. For her fifteenth and last birthday, she was given a five-part series of art history books as a present.

Follow us and discover even more stories about Anne’s room full of dreams.

When Anne Frank went into hiding on 6 July 1942, her cat Moortje had to stay behind with her neighbours at Merwedeplein....
04/10/2026

When Anne Frank went into hiding on 6 July 1942, her cat Moortje had to stay behind with her neighbours at Merwedeplein.

During her time in hiding, Anne met four other cats: Mouschi, Moffie, Tommie and Scharminkeltje. But despite these new furry companions, she still thought back to Moortje regularly:

"There's always a tiny black cat roaming around the yard and it reminds me of my dear sweet Moortje."

Drawings: Collection Anne Frank Stichting, Amsterdam / Huck Scarry.

01/10/2026

Anne Frank The Exhibition at Griffin MSI in Chicago traces Anne’s life from her childhood in Germany to the years she spent in hiding in Amsterdam.

Through more than 130 original artifacts, photographs and a full-scale recreation of the Annex, visitors encounter her story in a deeply personal way.

Experience Anne Frank The Exhibition with free entry this October: https://bit.ly/4AH0FMr

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