A chilling estate sale, today

[ShazzieB]

128. Not weird at all!

I learned a lot from it myself.

Just want to add a clarification, though: Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl were not nejghbors but employees of the company originally owned by Otto Frank, which continued to operate on the lower floors of the building while the Frank family and a few others were hiding in the attic and after they were taken away.

Miep Gies, who died in 2010, played a major role in helping the hidden Jews survive, by supplying them with food and other items they needed. She later related the whole story in her memoir, Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family. It's a fascinating read, and I recommend it highly, especially to those who have read Anne Frank's diary and want to know more about what happened. Miep was an amazing and heroic woman (although she did not see herself that way) and one of my personal heroes.