Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Miep Gies

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Dutch celebrity Miep Gies.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Hermine "Miep" Gies was one of the Dutch citizens who hid Anne Frank, her family and four other Dutch Jews from the Nazis in an annex above Otto Frank's business premises during World War II. She was Austrian by birth, but in 1920, at the age of eleven, she was taken in as a foster child by a Dutch family to whom she became very attached. Although she was initially only to stay for six months, this stay was extended to one year because of frail health, after which Gies chose to remain with them, living the rest of her life in the Netherlands. She died in 2010 at age 100, a month before her 101st birthday.

Dutch - Celebrity | February 15, 1909 - January 11, 2010

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Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.

Miep Gies

Too often, when people are in trouble they look for scapegoats.

Miep Gies

Children who use the Internet are much better informed than when I was young. Use this to your advantage.

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I certainly think that another Holocaust can happen again. It did already occur; think of Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia.

Miep Gies

Imagine young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero?

Miep Gies

I have never wanted special attention. I was only willing to do what was asked of me and what seemed necessary at the time.

Miep Gies

We did our duty as human beings: helping people in need.

Miep Gies

I myself am just an ordinary woman. I simply had no choice.

Miep Gies

I don't want to be considered a hero.... Imagine young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero? I was not. I was just an ordinary housewife and secretary.

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You are the heroes. You are the heroes everyday.

Miep Gies

I am not a hero. I just did what any decent person would have done.

Miep Gies

Real strength is being able to carry on when times are hard.

Miep Gies

People should never think that you have to be a very special person to help those who need you.

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