Hermine
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Hermine was born in Vienna, Austria back in 1909. She moved to escape the food shortage in 1920 due to WWI. There she was an honor student during her school years. After graduation from high school she worked as an accountant and later as a secretary with the Dutch branch of the German firm Opekta. During the German occupation in WWII she helped others by buying food and other necessities. She would void buying a large amount by never buying more than what she could carry in one shopping bag. That required her to visit several different suppliers a day.
In 1944 some of the people she was protecting was found at 263 Prinsengracht Street in Amsterdam. She, however was not arrested because the police officer who saved her was from her home town Vienna. BTW you may know her better as the name she went by Miep Gies. She will forever go down in history as the person who 263 Prinnsenngracht and retrieved the diary of Anne Frank. She saved them in her desk drawer.
After the war in 1947 she gave the diary to Otto Frank, having never read it. She later said had she taken the time to read the dairy she would have destroyed it as it contained all the names of the people who were harboring the Jews. She was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and was knighted in the Order of Orange-Nassau by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. She died in 2010 from injuries she sustained due to a fall at a nursing home.
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