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Names of Miep Gies

Variations of Miep Gies's name.

Subject

Miep Gies' first name was officially Hermine.[1] Her surname, Santrouschitz, was her mother's name.[1] Paternity was acknowledged by Johan Eipeldauer, but his name is not otherwise recorded in official records. Only her mother's name is recorded on her personal card and in her marriage booklet.[2]

The Leiden population register mistakenly recorded her first name as Hermiene.[3] The population register of Amsterdam initially copied this error, but later corrected it.[4] The Nieuwenburg family initially called their foster child Hermine, but when they got used to each other a bit, it became Miep.[5] A thank-you letter Miep Gies wrote to a colleague on the occasion of her twenty-seventh birthday, she signed "Miss Santos".[6] After her marriage to Jan Gies, Miep's surname was officially Gies-Santrouschitz.

When Anne Frank wrote the second version (the B version) of her diary, she wrote a list of the names she wanted to give the people in a book to be published later. She gave Miep Gies the name Anna van Santen.[7] In the first edition of the diary (1947), that became Miep van Santen.[8]

Footnotes

  1. a, b Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiekaarten (toegangsnummer 30408): Acrhief H. Santrouschitz.
  2. ^ Zie noot 1 en Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Anne Frank Collectie (AFC), reg. code A_Gies_I_016: Familieboekje (trouwboekje) op naam van Gies, Jan Augustus en Santrouschitz, Hermine (kopie).
  3. ^ Regionaal Archief Leiden, Leiden, Bevolkingsregister Leiden (1890-1923), nr. 1378, folio 56.
  4. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Gezinskaarten (toegangsnummer 5422): Gezinskaart L. Nieuwenburg.
  5. ^ Miep Gies & Alison Leslie Gold, Herinneringen aan Anne Frank. Het verhaal van Miep Gies, de steun en toeverlaat van de familie Frank in het Achterhuis, Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 1987, p. 19.
  6. ^ AFS, Collectiebeheer, collectie in handen van derden, familie Jansen, H. Santouschitz aan J. Jansen jr., 21 februari 1936.
  7. ^ 'Pseudoniemenlijstje', in: Nederlands Instituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (NIOD) (samenst.), De dagboeken van Anne Frank, 5e, verb. en uitgebr. druk, Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 2001, p. 70.
  8. ^ Anne Frank, Het Achterhuis: dagboekbrieven van 12 Juni 1942 - 1 Augustus 1944, Amsterdam: Contact, 1947.