Parashat Bo (Exodus 10:1-13:16)

Parashat Bo (Exodus 10:1-13:16)

By Rabbi Lisa Edwards

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/torah_portion/article/parashat_bo_exodus_101-1316_20100119/

Miep Gies died this month, weeks shy of her 101st birthday. Gies worked for Otto Frank’s Amsterdam pectin company and was the main caretaker of the Franks, including Anne, and the four other Jews who hid for 25 months in the business’ back rooms. Those hiding in the Secret Annex managed, with the help of Gies, her husband and four co-workers, to evade capture by the Nazis until August 1944. Dispersed to various concentration camps, only Anne’s father returned alive. Upon hearing of his daughters’ deaths, Miep Gies handed Otto Frank Anne’s diary, which she had found and stashed in her desk drawer after the hiding place was discovered by the Nazis.

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