In 1933, Miep Gies began working for Opekta, a European spice and pectin company that specialized in manufacturing jam, in Amsterdam. It was there that she met the man who would become her husband ...

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“AMSTERDAM. JULY 6, 1942.” The Gist: That is the day that the Frank family went in hiding from the Nazis, and Miep Gies (Bel Powley) is tasked with taking Margot Frank (Ashley Brooke), older ...