Gies’s parents sent her to the Netherlands when she was 11 after Austria lost World War I. Lowell explains, “They stole the Dutch Jews’ possessions, homes, and freedoms.” The author then introduces Gies, who was once a refugee. The narrative begins with a map and brief information about Nazi Germany and its threat to the Jewish community. The prose is gentle enough to serve as a reader’s first encounter with Holocaust literature. The text summarizes the Frank family’s experience in a chronological narrative. Lowell was inspired by Gies’s memoir to retell this story for young readers. After the Frank family’s arrest, Gies rescued Anne’s diary and returned it to Otto Frank after the war. Gr 2-4–When the Nazis became a danger to Jewish people living in Amsterdam during World War II, Miep Gies helped hide Anne Frank and her family.
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