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"description": "Als de secretaresse van Opekta, het bedrijf dat was gevestigd in het voorhuis van Prinsengracht 263, was Miep Gies-Santrouschitz, bijgestaan door haar echtgenoot Jan Gies, actief als helper aan de onderduikers in het Achterhuis van Prinsengracht 263. Miep Gies deed onder meer de boodschappen voor de onderduikers, en Jan Gies regelde de voedselbonnen waarmee Miep Gies bij een vast netwerk van winkels levensmiddelen kocht. Na de inval van de SD in het Achterhuis op 4 augustus 1944 heeft Miep Gies een aantal van deze bonnen, en een aantal andere objecten die afkomstig zijn van de onderduikers weten te bewaren. Dit voorbeeld is een van de objecten die rechtstreeks herinnert aan de periode van de onderduik en de rol die Miep en Jan Gies daarin hadden.",
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"content": "<p>Jan Augustus Gies was born on <strong>18 August 1905</strong> in the parental home Rustenburgerstraat 191, Amsterdam as the son of Cornelis Gies and Wilhelmina Gezina Steenge.<sup data-footnote-id=\"6n42e\"><a href=\"#footnote-1\" id=\"footnote-marker-1-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[1]</a></sup> He was the youngest of five children and was preceded by: Rosina Wilhelmina (Ro), Cornelis, Fenna Gesiena and Johanna Augusta.<sup data-footnote-id=\"nqtu3\"><a href=\"#footnote-2\" id=\"footnote-marker-2-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[2]</a></sup></p>\r\n\r\n<p>The Gies family lived at various addresses in the Pijp area, and from <strong>1917 </strong>to <strong>1919 </strong>in the then independent Watergraafsmeer. Jan's parents divorced in <strong>1925</strong>.<sup data-footnote-id=\"042vf\"><a href=\"#footnote-3\" id=\"footnote-marker-3-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[3]</a></sup> He continued to live with his father until his first marriage, except for the period <strong>April — October 1927</strong>, which he spent in Eindhoven.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>On <strong>13 December 1928</strong>, he married M.M.G. Netten. From <strong>January 1936</strong> they no longer lived in the same house, but the marriage was not officially dissolved until the end of <strong>1940</strong>. After the divorce Jan Gies lived in the boarding house of the Amende family on the Amsteldijk. When the boarding house moved to Rijnstraat, he moved with them.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>He met his second wife Miep when they both worked at Schellekens Borduur- en Plisseerateliers. They could not marry for many years because of Jan's first marriage. In the course of the <strong>1930s </strong>Jan met Otto Frank, by then Miep's employer.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Around <strong>1939</strong>, Jan started working for the Social Support Department of the municipality of Amsterdam. During the war years he became involved in the civil servants' resistance movement. His work made it relatively easy to deliver goods and documents to all sorts of addresses. One of his contacts was Social Support Department colleague Jacob Licht, who had to find other work after the February Strike. His reading material lending service business grew to become the COMO reading library. Every week Jan collected books here for the people hiding in the Secret Annex. As the husband of Miep and the commissioner of the firm Gies & Co, Jan was closely involved with the people in hiding. After Jan had been suspended by the leadership of his organisation due to danger, and the people in hiding had been arrested, the last months until the liberation passed relatively peacefully for him.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>After the liberation, he was seconded for some time to the Volksherstel (Restoration of People) organisation. Later he resumed his old work. In the <strong>1980s</strong>, Miep often related her story, but Jan kept more in the background. In <strong>1972 </strong>he received the Yad Vashem decoration at the intercession of Otto Frank. He died at the age of 87 in Amsterdam.<sup data-footnote-id=\"fgobv\"><a href=\"#footnote-4\" id=\"footnote-marker-4-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[4]</a></sup></p>\r\n\r\n<section class=\"footnotes\">\r\n<header>\r\n<h2>Footnotes</h2>\r\n</header>\r\n\r\n<ol>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"6n42e\" id=\"footnote-1\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-1-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Burgerlijke Stand (toegang 5009), inv. nr. 7508: register van geboorteakten 1905, deel 17, 5f, no. 9649.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"nqtu3\" id=\"footnote-2\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-2-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Gezinskaarten (toegangsnummer 5422): Gezinskaart C. Gies (1868)</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"042vf\" id=\"footnote-3\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-3-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart W.G. Steenge.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"fgobv\" id=\"footnote-4\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-4-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Literature: Aukje Vergeest, <em>Anne Frank in the Secret Annexe: who was who?</em>, Amsterdam: Anne Frank House, 2015.</cite></li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</section>",
"content_nl": "<p>Jan Augustus Gies werd op <strong>18 augustus 1905 </strong>geboren in de ouderlijke woning Rustenburgerstraat 191, Amsterdam als zoon van Cornelis Gies en Wilhelmina Gezina Steenge.<sup data-footnote-id=\"iqh6f\"><a href=\"#footnote-1\" id=\"footnote-marker-1-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[1]</a></sup><br />\r\nHij was de jongste van vijf kinderen en werd voorafgegaan door: Rosina Wilhelmina (Ro), Cornelis, Fenna Gesiena en Johanna Augusta.<sup data-footnote-id=\"k5c1e\"><a href=\"#footnote-2\" id=\"footnote-marker-2-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[2]</a></sup></p>\r\n\r\n<p>De familie Gies woonde op verschillende adressen in de Pijp, en van <strong>1917 tot 1919</strong> in de dan nog zelfstandige Watergraafsmeer. In <strong>1925</strong> scheidden Jan zijn ouders.<sup data-footnote-id=\"h895k\"><a href=\"#footnote-3\" id=\"footnote-marker-3-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[3]</a></sup> Hij bleef tot zijn eerste huwelijk bij zijn vader wonen, behalve de periode <strong>april – oktober 1927</strong>, die hij in Eindhoven doorbracht.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Op <strong>13 december 1928</strong> trouwde hij met M.M.G. Netten. Vanaf <strong>januari 1936</strong> woonden zij niet meer in een huis, maar het huwelijk werd pas <strong>eind 1940</strong> officieel ontbonden. Jan Gies woonde na de scheiding van tafel en bed in het pension van de familie Amende aan de Amsteldijk. Toen het pension naar de Rijnstraat vertrok, verhuisde hij mee.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Hij maakte kennis met zijn tweede vrouw Miep toen ze allebei bij Schellekens Borduur- en Plisseerateliers werkten. Ze konden jarenlang niet trouwen vanwege Jans eerste huwelijk. In de loop van de jaren dertig leerde Jan Otto Frank kennen, inmiddels de werkgever van Miep.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Rond <strong>1939</strong> ging Jan bij de afdeling Maatschappelijke Steun van de gemeente Amsterdam werken. Tijdens de oorlogsjaren raakte hij betrokken bij het ambtenarenverzet. Zijn werk maakte het betrekkelijk eenvoudig op allerlei adressen goederen en documenten af te leveren. Een van zijn contactpersonen was MS-collega Jacob Licht, die na de Februaristaking ander werk moest zoeken. Zijn leesportefeuillebedrijf groeide uit tot de leesbibliotheek COMO. Jan haalde hier wekelijks boeken voor de onderduikers in het Achterhuis. Als echtgenoot van Miep en als commissaris van de firma Gies & Co was Jan nauw betrokken bij de onderduikers. Nadat Jan vanwege gevaar door de leiding van zijn organisatie op non-actief was gezet, en de onderduikers waren gearresteerd, verliepen de laatste maanden tot de bevrijding voor hem betrekkelijk rustig.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Na de bevrijding werd hij enige tijd gedetacheerd bij Volksherstel. Later nam hij zijn oude werk weer op. In de jaren tachtig trad Miep vaak met haar verhaal naar buiten, maar Jan hield zich meer op de achtergrond. In <strong>1972</strong> kreeg hij op voorspraak van Otto Frank de Yad Vashem-onderscheiding. Hij overleed op 87-jarige leeftijd in Amsterdam.<sup data-footnote-id=\"yuwkv\"><a href=\"#footnote-4\" id=\"footnote-marker-4-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[4]</a></sup></p>\r\n\r\n<section class=\"footnotes\">\r\n<header>\r\n<h2>Footnotes</h2>\r\n</header>\r\n\r\n<ol>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"iqh6f\" id=\"footnote-1\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-1-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Burgerlijke Stand (toegang 5009), inv. nr. 7508: register van geboorteakten 1905, deel 17, 5f, no. 9649.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"k5c1e\" id=\"footnote-2\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-2-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Gezinskaarten (toegangsnummer 5422): Gezinskaart C. Gies (1868).</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"h895k\" id=\"footnote-3\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-3-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart W.G. Steenge.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"yuwkv\" id=\"footnote-4\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-4-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Literatuur: Aukje Vergeest, <em>Anne Frank in het Achterhuis: wie was wie?</em>, Amsterdam: Rainbow, 2014.</cite></li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</section>",
"content_en": "<p>Jan Augustus Gies was born on <strong>18 August 1905</strong> in the parental home Rustenburgerstraat 191, Amsterdam as the son of Cornelis Gies and Wilhelmina Gezina Steenge.<sup data-footnote-id=\"6n42e\"><a href=\"#footnote-1\" id=\"footnote-marker-1-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[1]</a></sup> He was the youngest of five children and was preceded by: Rosina Wilhelmina (Ro), Cornelis, Fenna Gesiena and Johanna Augusta.<sup data-footnote-id=\"nqtu3\"><a href=\"#footnote-2\" id=\"footnote-marker-2-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[2]</a></sup></p>\r\n\r\n<p>The Gies family lived at various addresses in the Pijp area, and from <strong>1917 </strong>to <strong>1919 </strong>in the then independent Watergraafsmeer. Jan's parents divorced in <strong>1925</strong>.<sup data-footnote-id=\"042vf\"><a href=\"#footnote-3\" id=\"footnote-marker-3-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[3]</a></sup> He continued to live with his father until his first marriage, except for the period <strong>April — October 1927</strong>, which he spent in Eindhoven.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>On <strong>13 December 1928</strong>, he married M.M.G. Netten. From <strong>January 1936</strong> they no longer lived in the same house, but the marriage was not officially dissolved until the end of <strong>1940</strong>. After the divorce Jan Gies lived in the boarding house of the Amende family on the Amsteldijk. When the boarding house moved to Rijnstraat, he moved with them.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>He met his second wife Miep when they both worked at Schellekens Borduur- en Plisseerateliers. They could not marry for many years because of Jan's first marriage. In the course of the <strong>1930s </strong>Jan met Otto Frank, by then Miep's employer.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Around <strong>1939</strong>, Jan started working for the Social Support Department of the municipality of Amsterdam. During the war years he became involved in the civil servants' resistance movement. His work made it relatively easy to deliver goods and documents to all sorts of addresses. One of his contacts was Social Support Department colleague Jacob Licht, who had to find other work after the February Strike. His reading material lending service business grew to become the COMO reading library. Every week Jan collected books here for the people hiding in the Secret Annex. As the husband of Miep and the commissioner of the firm Gies & Co, Jan was closely involved with the people in hiding. After Jan had been suspended by the leadership of his organisation due to danger, and the people in hiding had been arrested, the last months until the liberation passed relatively peacefully for him.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>After the liberation, he was seconded for some time to the Volksherstel (Restoration of People) organisation. Later he resumed his old work. In the <strong>1980s</strong>, Miep often related her story, but Jan kept more in the background. In <strong>1972 </strong>he received the Yad Vashem decoration at the intercession of Otto Frank. He died at the age of 87 in Amsterdam.<sup data-footnote-id=\"fgobv\"><a href=\"#footnote-4\" id=\"footnote-marker-4-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[4]</a></sup></p>\r\n\r\n<section class=\"footnotes\">\r\n<header>\r\n<h2>Footnotes</h2>\r\n</header>\r\n\r\n<ol>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"6n42e\" id=\"footnote-1\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-1-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Burgerlijke Stand (toegang 5009), inv. nr. 7508: register van geboorteakten 1905, deel 17, 5f, no. 9649.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"nqtu3\" id=\"footnote-2\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-2-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Gezinskaarten (toegangsnummer 5422): Gezinskaart C. Gies (1868)</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"042vf\" id=\"footnote-3\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-3-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart W.G. Steenge.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"fgobv\" id=\"footnote-4\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-4-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Literature: Aukje Vergeest, <em>Anne Frank in the Secret Annexe: who was who?</em>, Amsterdam: Anne Frank House, 2015.</cite></li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</section>",
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"summary": "Jan Gies, like his wife Miep, helped the people in hiding in the Secret Annex.",
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