{"id":188662,"date":"2010-01-15T17:26:57","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T22:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2010806586_miepgiespassing.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-01-15T17:26:57","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T22:26:57","slug":"miep-gies-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/188662","title":{"rendered":"Miep Gies’ passing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sheltered Anne Frank, touched lives<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was with special sorrow that I learned of the passing of Miep Gies, the woman who risked her life during the Nazi occupation of Holland to bring food, medicines, provisions and outside companionship to Anne Frank, her family and the other lodgers in a secret annex [\u201cMiep Gies, who helped hide Anne Frank, dies at 100,\u201d Newsline, Jan. 12].<\/p>\n

I had the profound privilege of meeting Gies at Temple De Hirsch Sinai in 1995 when she was in Seattle to open an exhibit about Anne Frank. When I shook her hand, I remember feeling overwhelmed that I was touching the same hand that had held Anne Frank\u2019s hand when Frank was afraid, soothed her forehead when she was sick and stroked her hair when she was melancholy. In this way, for a shining moment, I shared an intense connection with the timeless young diarist.<\/p>\n

The experience left me at a loss for words and I didn\u2019t get a chance to thank Gies for her courageous altruism or her retrieval and preservation of the scattered pages of Anne Frank\u2019s writings \u2014 without which the world would have never known her diary. But looking into Gies\u2019 pallid blue eyes, I sensed that she didn\u2019t want to hear that anyway and that she knew that she had been the agent for a moment I would treasure the rest of my life.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Mark Isaacs, Las Vegas<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sheltered Anne Frank, touched lives It was with special sorrow that I learned of the passing of Miep Gies, the woman who risked her life during the Nazi occupation of Holland to bring food, medicines, provisions and outside companionship to Anne Frank, her family and the other lodgers in a secret annex [\u201cMiep Gies, who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}