Earlier today, I received an e-mail asking about information about Miep Koenig. When I found some information, I was told but the person who they were looking for lived in Toronto. Well, further research revealed that Miep Koenig, part of the family that hid Anne Frank and her family during WW II was the same person who moved to Toronto and had been an educator. It seems that the person who asked about her did not know her background. Fascinating. On the weekend, I participated in a course about writing. The participants also had varied backgrounds. It was interesting to find out more about each individual. One was a former top model, another had lived in Burma and then worked for the UN, another a statistician. Each of these people had stories to be told and unless you dug dip enough you might never know about the many facets of these people.
Amazing that people do have many sides to them and that we do not always see the other side.
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Hi, I was trying to find out your origin, "Bassoon Woman," as your research, unfortunately, is quite erroneous. The woman who helped to bring food and clothing to the Frank family--of which Anne Frank was the youngest member--was Miep GIES. My mother was Miep KOENIG, nee de Zwarte. Both of these women were from the Netherlands, and both women passed away by the time you wrote your post (in November 2010). However Miep Gies continued to live in Europe after the war, whereas my mother (Miep Koenig) had emigrated to Canada.
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