Anne Frank Remembered

While driving to Minnesota and around Iowa and back this long weekend, I listened to this book. It is co-written by Miep Gies and Alison Gold. Miep Gies is the woman who cared for the Frank family while they were in hiding in Amsterdam during 1942-1944. The book is like hearing the story from the other side of the wall of "the attic". It is written in first person told by Miep herself beginning with her own refugee experience in leaving Vienna after WWI as a starving child and being sent to a family in Amsterdam to be cared for. She tells about the difficulties encountered before the war and how things got worse and worse as the war wore on. We Americans have no clue about what the war was like for Europeans. Even Britain fared much better than those on the Continent.
The story was a reminder of God's gracious providence to this woman and all eight people she cared for. Although she referred to every close call as "luck", one could see the hand of God protecting and providing for them.
It was a great way to spend a lovely weekend in the car!

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