Miep Quotes & Sayings

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

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

I don't want to be considered a hero ... Imagine [if] 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. — Miep Gies

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

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

But even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenager can, within their own small ways, turn on a small light in a dark room. — Miep Gies

You are the heroes. You are the heroes everyday. — Miep Gies

The last entry in Anne's diary is dated August 1, 1944. On August 4, 1944, the eight people hiding in the Secret Annex were arrested. Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl, the two secretaries working in the building, found Anne's diaries strewn all over the floor. Miep Gies tucked them away in a desk drawer for safekeeping. After the war, when it became clear that Anne was dead, she gave the diaries, unread, to Anne's father, Otto Frank. — Anne Frank

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

Kugel wondered if in these days of the Internet you would even need a Miep Gies anymore, if you could make it through a genocide these days with just a smartphone and a credit card, and he was hopeful that in the event of another Holocaust, he would have some sort of broadband Internet access. — Shalom Auslander

Jan Gies won't need to. He'll let his wife ride piggyback, and then Miep — Anne Frank

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

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

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