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"name": "Philosophy of life, Miep Gies",
"name_nl": "Levensbeschouwing Miep Gies",
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"description": "<p>All we know about this subject is what Miep says about it in her book and in an explanation during an interview:</p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><em>"My parents had been practising Catholics and had taken me to church a few times as a little girl in Vienna, but I didn't like that."</em></li>\r\n\t<li>In Leiden, Miep did not attend a church.<em> 'But I never doubted that God existed'. </em>This changed during the war years.<sup data-footnote-id=\"hwker\"><a href=\"#footnote-1\" id=\"footnote-marker-1-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[1]</a></sup> After the war, Miep started reading The Old and New Testament and books about all kinds of religions; Judaism, Catholicism and Protestantism.<sup data-footnote-id=\"tef5k\"><a href=\"#footnote-2\" id=\"footnote-marker-2-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[2]</a></sup></li>\r\n\t<li>In a <strong>1992 </strong>interview, she said she came to her religious quest through doubt. She could not imagine that the complexity of nature was not governed by a higher power. Since the war, however, she struggled with the fact that God had allowed everything to happen without intervention.<sup data-footnote-id=\"j57hu\"><a href=\"#footnote-3\" id=\"footnote-marker-3-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[3]</a></sup></li>\r\n\t<li>The same book on faith and life attitudes was on her table in Desert Dune Street for many years.<em> </em>She said of it: <em>'I like to read this book regularly, especially on Sundays. Although I used to go to church, I feel that I have passed the church now. I have my own faith and I am content with that'.</em><sup data-footnote-id=\"bc22s\"><a href=\"#footnote-4\" id=\"footnote-marker-4-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[4]</a></sup></li>\r\n</ul>\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=\"hwker\" id=\"footnote-1\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-1-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Miep Gies & Alison Leslie Gold, <em>Herinneringen aan Anne Frank. Het verhaal van Miep Gies, de steun en toeverlaat van de familie Frank in het Achterhuis</em>, Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 1987, p. 230.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"tef5k\" id=\"footnote-2\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-2-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Gies & Gold, <em>Herinnneringen aan Anne Frank</em>, p. 231.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"j57hu\" id=\"footnote-3\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-3-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Anne Frank Stichting, Getuigenarchief, Santrouschitz: interview, deel 1, p. 8, 1992, met Miep en Jan Gies.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"bc22s\" id=\"footnote-4\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-4-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Uit de toespraak van Teresien da Silva bij de uitvaart van Miep Gies, 18 januari 2010.</cite></li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</section>",
"description_nl": "<p>Het enige dat we over dit onderwerp weten is wat Miep hierover zegt in haar boek en in een toelichting tijdens een interview:</p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><em>'Mijn ouders waren praktizerend katholiek geweest en hadden me als klein meisje in Wenen een paar keer mee naar de kerk genomen, maar dat vond ik maar niks.'</em></li>\r\n\t<li>In Leiden gaat Miep niet naar een kerk. '<em>Maar ik twijfelde er nooit aan of God bestond'. </em>Dit veranderde tijdens de oorlogsjaren.<sup data-footnote-id=\"hwker\"><a href=\"#footnote-1\" id=\"footnote-marker-1-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[1]</a></sup> Na de oorlog ging Miep Het Oude en Nieuwe Testament lezen en boeken over allerlei godsdiensten; judaïsme, katholicisme en protestantisme.<sup data-footnote-id=\"tef5k\"><a href=\"#footnote-2\" id=\"footnote-marker-2-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[2]</a></sup></li>\r\n\t<li>In een interview uit <strong>1992 </strong>zei ze dat ze door twijfel tot haar religieuze zoektocht kwam. Ze kon zich niet voorstellen dat de complexiteit van de natuur niet door een hogere macht werd bestierd. Sinds de oorlog worstelde ze echter met het feit dat God alles zonder ingrijpen had laten gebeuren.<sup data-footnote-id=\"j57hu\"><a href=\"#footnote-3\" id=\"footnote-marker-3-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[3]</a></sup></li>\r\n\t<li>Op haar tafel in de Woestduinstraat lag jarenlang hetzelfde boek over geloof en levenshoudingen.<em> </em>Ze zei daarover: <em>'Ik houd ervan om regelmatig, vooral op zondag in dit boek te lezen. Hoewel ik vroeger wel naar de kerk ging, voel ik dat ik nu de kerk voorbij ben. Ik heb mijn eigen geloof en daar ben ik tevreden mee'.</em><sup data-footnote-id=\"bc22s\"><a href=\"#footnote-4\" id=\"footnote-marker-4-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[4]</a></sup></li>\r\n</ul>\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=\"hwker\" id=\"footnote-1\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-1-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Miep Gies & Alison Leslie Gold, <em>Herinneringen aan Anne Frank. Het verhaal van Miep Gies, de steun en toeverlaat van de familie Frank in het Achterhuis</em>, Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 1987, p. 230.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"tef5k\" id=\"footnote-2\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-2-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Gies & Gold, <em>Herinnneringen aan Anne Frank</em>, p. 231.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"j57hu\" id=\"footnote-3\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-3-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Anne Frank Stichting, Getuigenarchief, Santrouschitz: interview, deel 1, p. 8, 1992, met Miep en Jan Gies.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"bc22s\" id=\"footnote-4\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-4-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Uit de toespraak van Teresien da Silva bij de uitvaart van Miep Gies, 18 januari 2010.</cite></li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</section>",
"description_en": "<p>All we know about this subject is what Miep says about it in her book and in an explanation during an interview:</p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><em>"My parents had been practising Catholics and had taken me to church a few times as a little girl in Vienna, but I didn't like that."</em></li>\r\n\t<li>In Leiden, Miep did not attend a church.<em> 'But I never doubted that God existed'. </em>This changed during the war years.<sup data-footnote-id=\"hwker\"><a href=\"#footnote-1\" id=\"footnote-marker-1-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[1]</a></sup> After the war, Miep started reading The Old and New Testament and books about all kinds of religions; Judaism, Catholicism and Protestantism.<sup data-footnote-id=\"tef5k\"><a href=\"#footnote-2\" id=\"footnote-marker-2-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[2]</a></sup></li>\r\n\t<li>In a <strong>1992 </strong>interview, she said she came to her religious quest through doubt. She could not imagine that the complexity of nature was not governed by a higher power. Since the war, however, she struggled with the fact that God had allowed everything to happen without intervention.<sup data-footnote-id=\"j57hu\"><a href=\"#footnote-3\" id=\"footnote-marker-3-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[3]</a></sup></li>\r\n\t<li>The same book on faith and life attitudes was on her table in Desert Dune Street for many years.<em> </em>She said of it: <em>'I like to read this book regularly, especially on Sundays. Although I used to go to church, I feel that I have passed the church now. I have my own faith and I am content with that'.</em><sup data-footnote-id=\"bc22s\"><a href=\"#footnote-4\" id=\"footnote-marker-4-1\" rel=\"footnote\">[4]</a></sup></li>\r\n</ul>\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=\"hwker\" id=\"footnote-1\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-1-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Miep Gies & Alison Leslie Gold, <em>Herinneringen aan Anne Frank. Het verhaal van Miep Gies, de steun en toeverlaat van de familie Frank in het Achterhuis</em>, Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 1987, p. 230.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"tef5k\" id=\"footnote-2\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-2-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Gies & Gold, <em>Herinnneringen aan Anne Frank</em>, p. 231.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"j57hu\" id=\"footnote-3\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-3-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Anne Frank Stichting, Getuigenarchief, Santrouschitz: interview, deel 1, p. 8, 1992, met Miep en Jan Gies.</cite></li>\r\n\t<li data-footnote-id=\"bc22s\" id=\"footnote-4\"><sup><a href=\"#footnote-marker-4-1\">^</a> </sup><cite>Uit de toespraak van Teresien da Silva bij de uitvaart van Miep Gies, 18 januari 2010.</cite></li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</section>",
"summary": "Miep Gies' faith in God changed over the course of her life.",
"summary_nl": "Miep Gies' geloof in God veranderde in de loop van haar leven.",
"summary_en": "Miep Gies' faith in God changed over the course of her life.",
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