The book’s shared focus is on both Gies and Anne, defining their story as one of friendship and shared suffering. In Behind the Bookcase, Barbara Lowell and Valentina Toro approach Gies’s story as one of personal moral conviction and empathy, one with great significance for young readers today. Gies presented Anne’s father, Otto, with the diary, which he published in an edited form. After World War II ended, Gies returned to the Secret Annex and found the diary in which Anne had recorded her experiences and feelings. The story of how Miep Gies, along with other business associates and friends of Anne Frank’s father, courageously hid his family from the Nazis is well known.
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