When I picked this person I asked myself two essential questions, Who is this person and why is she important to history ? I believe Hermine Santrouschitz aka Miep Gies is important to history because she helped hide the Franks and other families . I mean if you think about it without her we wouldn’t have read about “The Diary of Anne Frank” because it wouldn’t have existed . Meaning if she wouldn’t have hid the Franks Anne and her family would have just been sent straight to a concentration camp right away and they all would have probably died right when they got there . So the reason is she is important in history is because she helped others in need and Anne’s diary which showed people tolerance and would have never existed and their …show more content…
Miep was born in a place called Vienna, Austria . Miep was the youngest in her biological family . When Miep was eleven years old she was placed into a foster home in Leiden due to her family being poor and her being in a malnourished program for children . The family's last name she lived with was Nieuwenburg and she lived with them to help her become healthy again . “The family nicknamed her miep” said bio.com . Miep lived with them until the age of eighteen and then had gone back to visit her family in Vienna when she was sixteen but didn’t move back because she loved her foster family and they understood . After Miep was done with school she had gotten a job at a textile factory . Miep worked at the factory for six years age twenty four now until she was laid off because of the Great Depression . After she was laid off she went on unemployment for about two months and after the two months she received news from a neighbor that there might have been a position open in Nederlandsche Opekta a company that made jam . Miep was interviewed by a man named Otto Frank . On a side note because of the Nazi’s him and his family left Germany and he took his business with him . Biography.com also says that “Miep and Otto had some sort of connection because of Geman and Dutch .” MIep was told to go back to Vienna because the Nazi’s had invaded the Netherlands . Mieps uncle had a connection so she was