Jan Gies, Dutch activist (died 1993)

Jan Gies

Dutch Resistance member; Dutch Righteous Among the Nations; World War II humanitarian

Jan Augustus Gies was a member of the Dutch Resistance who, with his wife, Miep, helped hide Anne Frank, her sister Margot, their parents Otto and Edith, the van Pels family, and Fritz Pfeffer from Nazi persecution during the occupation of the Netherlands by aiding them as they…