Our Voices Will be Heard
In The book Diary Of a Young Girl I noticed that six people really stood out from the rest. Those people taught me that even in the toughest times you can be both brave and still be scared. I believe the thing that keeped Anne and her family was that they were so brave and fearless.
Miep Gies:
Hermine (Miep) Gies-Santrouschitz was born in Vienna in 1909. Her parents sent her to the Netherlands after World War I along with other children who came to recover from tuberculosis and malnutrition. She liked the Netherlands so much that her parents gave her permission to stay on with her Dutch family. In 1933 she began working as Otto Frank’s secretary at Opekta, his trading company in gelling agents for making jam. Shortly afterwards Miep met Otto’s wife Edith and their daughters Margot and Anne Miep and her boyfriend Jan Gies visited the Frank family frequently, and became friends. When Otto approached Miep in the spring of 1942 to ask her to help his family go into hiding, she did not hesitate. She made sure that Otto, his wife Edith and their daughters, Margot and Anne, the Van Pels family and later Fritz Pfeffer were supplied with food and other essential things daily. Meanwhile …show more content…
Victor’s birth certificate indicates that he was born out-of-wedlock (meaning his mother was not married) .His mother Emma Kugler was a seamstress in Hohenelbe. Victor excels in religion, geography, and history, and is doing well in gymnastics and mathematics. During an assembly job in Utrecht for the Deutsche Maschinenfabrik he meets Laua Maria Buntenbach. He finds another job and stays in the Netherlands. In 1923 he receives his diploma in Dutch Business Correspondence and is working for a firm that sells pectin to producers of jam. Victor Kugler meets Otto Frank through the pectin business. In 1933, he becomes one of the first employees at Otto Frank’s newly established Opekta Company in
In The book Diary Of a Young Girl I noticed that six people really stood out from the rest. Those people taught me that even in the toughest times you can be both brave and still be scared. I believe the thing that keeped Anne and her family was that they were so brave and fearless.
Miep Gies:
Hermine (Miep) Gies-Santrouschitz was born in Vienna in 1909. Her parents sent her to the Netherlands after World War I along with other children who came to recover from tuberculosis and malnutrition. She liked the Netherlands so much that her parents gave her permission to stay on with her Dutch family. In 1933 she began working as Otto Frank’s secretary at Opekta, his trading company in gelling agents for making jam. Shortly afterwards Miep met Otto’s wife Edith and their daughters Margot and Anne Miep and her boyfriend Jan Gies visited the Frank family frequently, and became friends. When Otto approached Miep in the spring of 1942 to ask her to help his family go into hiding, she did not hesitate. She made sure that Otto, his wife Edith and their daughters, Margot and Anne, the Van Pels family and later Fritz Pfeffer were supplied with food and other essential things daily. Meanwhile …show more content…
Victor’s birth certificate indicates that he was born out-of-wedlock (meaning his mother was not married) .His mother Emma Kugler was a seamstress in Hohenelbe. Victor excels in religion, geography, and history, and is doing well in gymnastics and mathematics. During an assembly job in Utrecht for the Deutsche Maschinenfabrik he meets Laua Maria Buntenbach. He finds another job and stays in the Netherlands. In 1923 he receives his diploma in Dutch Business Correspondence and is working for a firm that sells pectin to producers of jam. Victor Kugler meets Otto Frank through the pectin business. In 1933, he becomes one of the first employees at Otto Frank’s newly established Opekta Company in