Like most girls, I read Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl when I was in school.Borrowed often from our library, the book was well worn by the many readers who had loved it before me, but when I read that book I felt like Anne was confiding directly to me. I was with her as she detailed the quotidian drama of her life in the attic, her struggles, hopes, frustrations, and dreams. I was thirteen when I read the book for the last time. The characters I remembered were the people who lived with Anne—her mother and father, Margot and Peter, the Van Daans and Mr. Dussel—not the ones in the office below who were intricately involved in her survival.Miep Gies, who I honestly did not remember from the diary, worked for Mr. Frank and is one of the people from the office who sometimes came upstairs to visit and deliver food or who knocked on the door to alert them of danger or to give them the all-clear when the danger had passed. Anne mentions her several times but to my thirteen year old self her part seemed almost small compared to the dramas in the attic.
The beauty of Anne Frank Remembered is that Miep tells the other side of Anne’s story—the grown-up side—and gives you greater insight into the reality of life in the attic as well as the world beyond the attic.
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