Okay this technically isn’t an antique book but I got it at a flea market so sematics. Anyway, hopefully most people know who Miep is, aka Hermine Geis, the woman who helped hide the Frank family in the Secret Annex is WW2.

This memoir is told from Miep’s point of view, giving a wider outlook to Dutch life during the war. Especially the paranoia, danger and tragedy Miep witnesses from neighbors failing to scape, the harsh separations, and the feelings that you can’t trust anyone.

Nonetheless, the pride and love Miep has for her home country in spite of the actions of the Nazi parties shine through, as well as her hope for humanity just like Anne did. Even though Miep is human, and admits of the sadness and hopelessness that would consume her during those years. But what better example of people being inherantly good than what she and her husband tried to do in saving their friends?

Just a good book to read.