Quoted from Jewish Monthly, May/June 1999

Miep Gies, Righteous Gentile

"... Miep Gies has suffered strokes in the last 2 years, and her knowledge of several languages has nearly left her, but we managed, mostly in German. Her first words, however, were in English. Pointing to a poignant oil painting of a young girl looking wistfully through a window, she said, "This is my Anne. This is the real Anne, like I remember her."