Anne Frank Remembered Quotes

“During the hiding time I lived for the day that the war would end, when I would be able to go into the hiding place, throw open the doors, and say to my friends, “Now go home!” This was not to be. Perhaps when the time comes for me to join Jan and our friends in the hereafter, I’ll push aside the bookcase, walk behind it, climb the steep wooden stairway, careful not to hit my head on the low ceiling where Peter nailed the old towel to it. Upstairs Jan will be leaning against the edge of the dresser, his long legs stretched out, the cat Mouschi in his arms. All the others will be sitting around the table and will greet me when I enter. And Anne, with her usual curiosity, will get up and rush toward me saying, “Hello, Miep. What is the news?” I doubt I have very long to wait. People ask me what it is like to have outlived almost everyone whose history I have shared. It is a strange feeling. Why me? Why was I spared the concentration camp after being caught helping to hide Jews? This I will never know.”
― Miep Gies, Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family

“HITLER’S VOICE on the radio had become even more hysterical, his words often not making much sense. It was obvious to us all that he was trying to breathe new fury into his retreating troops. He shouted about new miracle weapons that his factories were producing which would soon inflict crushing blows on the advancing armies of the Allies. His voice had become hysterical, the voice of a desperate fanatic, rather than that of a leader of armies and men.”
― Miep Gies, Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family

“On February 12, 1941, the Dutch Nazi newspaper reported that Jews with sharpened teeth had ripped open the necks of Nazi soldiers and sucked their blood like vampires. The depths of the Nazi lies and depravity shook us all.”
― Miep Gies, Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family

“The movie theaters showed an anti-Semitic newsreel called “The Eternal Jew,” but as we’d stopped going to the movies, neither Henk nor I saw it. Books that the Germans didn’t like were removed from our libraries and bookshops. It was said that they were also making changes in school textbooks to suit their ideology.”
― Miep Gies, Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family

“My story is a story of very ordinary people during extraordinarily terrible times. Times the like of which I hope with all my heart will never, never come again. It is for all of us ordinary people all over the world to see to it that they do not. MIEP GIES”
― Miep Gies, Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family

“The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition was published. This new, expanded”
― Miep Gies, Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family

“in silence we all shared the same sorrow and memories.”
― Miep Gies, Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family