Word: giese
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Left strewn on the floor were the green-and-red book, the journals and loose blue-and-pink sheets containing Anne's account of two years in hiding. They were picked up and put in a desk drawer by Miep Gies, Otto's secretary. Gies, now 89, is an international...
The film's secret star is Miep Gies, a Gentile who worked for Otto's company. Today she looks like a stoic maiden aunt; kids at a family dinner would peg her as a stodge. But that is because Hollywood teaches us to look for shining ideals in a pretty...
Gies' modest recounting of her daredevil acts makes goodness seem almost routine, the norm, in a time when monsters ravaged Europe. But that is Blair's point. In war as in peace, Anne's friends showed a bravery they might well shrug off as simple human decency. This harrowing, inspiring...