She became a close, trusted friend of the Frank family and was a great support to them during the twenty-five months they spent in hiding. The couple’s only son, Paul Gies, died last year; his widow and children remain committed to preserving their grandparents’ legacy.

It was winter -- always bitter in Vienna -- December of 1920, and I was bundled up in whatever my parents could find and taken to the cavernous Vienna railway station.Her books have been adapted for stage and screen and have been translated into twenty-three languages. My parents lived through WWII in Europe, but nothing I have read or heard compares to this to capture the utter evil that enveloped Europe, the amazing human spirit that let's people survive the most unbelievable circumstances, or the effect of the war on Europe. Miep, her husband and all of those that risked their lives to help the Jewish people were angels on earth. She did not tell anyone, not even her own foster parents, about the people in hiding whom she was assisting. In 1933, Gies began working for Otto Frank, a Jewish businessman who had moved with his family from Germany to the Netherlands in the hope of sparing his family from Nazi persecution.

I did not want to hurt my natural family's feelings, and I was still young and needed their consent.

Also, I didn't realize that there was more time between their capture and the end of the war; it was more lengthy than I thought.

She believes the couple “would be very touched” by the new series and continued interest in the story of their lives, the Franks and the others they helped. Even though we know much about Anne Frank and her diary, this book added an extra perspective on Anne for me. Hoping to secure a better life for their daughter, Gies’ parents sent her abroad to the Netherlands as part of a program for children like her to regain their strength under the care of foster families. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. It was pitch-black, the middle of the night, when the train stopped and we were shaken awake and led off the train.

On the morning of Friday, August 4, 1944, a man brandishing a revolver entered Gies’ office and told the helpers to stay put. In the decades after Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl was published, Miep and Jan Gies chose to remain out of the spotlight until the publication of Anne Frank Remembered, when they became celebrities in the Netherlands and around the world. Miep Gies gives far more insight and information into the story of all who were hiding in the annexe.

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.

After transcribing sections for his family, Frank was persuaded of the value of Anne’s account of their ordeal and arranged for the book's publication in 1947. The occasion of the 100th birthday of Miep Gies in February 2009 will be marked by a revised English-language edition of her book, Anne Frank Remembered. Every day, she saw trucks loaded with Jews heading to the railway station, en route to Nazi concentration camps.