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Harvard Row Mall Southfield, MI 48076 Free Professional Measure at No Obligation Free in Home Design Consulting 48 Friday, May 1, 1987 1 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Hours: Mon.-Sat. 10-5 Thursday 10-8 352-8622 ADL Presents Award To Frank Family Helper New York (JTA) — The petite elderly woman stepped up to the podium in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza here, before the Holocaust Mem- orial Wall, last Sunday. Miep Gies said simply, "We are so happy to be here with you, and we thank you so very much for your warm and friendly welcome." With such simple words and great humility, the woman who hid Anne Frank received the Courage to Care Award from the Anti- Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. Gies (pronounced Khiess) doesn't think of herself as a hero, she says repeatedly. "People call me hero, but it is my opinion that that is not the right word. What we have done derives from my Euro- pean character and my love for mankind We will always remember that there were other people who did the same as we. We would like to accept this award for all the lesser-known people who did the same. We will never forget what has happened." Gies remained very much a private figure in Amsterdam, but now she has decided to come forward with her mem- ories of Anne and the Frank family, who were her em- ployers and friends, because she and her husband Jan, who received the award with her, are the last eyewitnesses to the remarkable story. The book she has written, Anne Frank Remembered (with Alison Leslie Gold, published by Simon and Schuster) tells the story from the other side of the famed swinging bookcase that hid what Anne called "the Secret Annexe." In it, she has re- called with sorrow and love the girl who left the diary that became the world's treasure. Jan (who appears as Henk Van Senten in Anne's diary, to protect his identity, and as Henk Gies in his wife's memoirs) worked in the underground. "I was a social worker in the city of Amster- dam," he said in an interview. "We were close friends before they went into hiding. Jan, now 81, is very protective of his beloved Miep, who looks much younger than her 78 years. Miep, asked to remem- ber the Franks, said simply, "They were a nice family, good people and close friends." After the Franks and the others who hid with them — the Van Daan family and Mr. Dusel — were taken away to Bergen-Belsen and Ausch- witz, Miep did the un- thinkable. She walked into the Gestapo headquarters in Amsterdam, to see the Vien- nese Nazi who had taken them away. He had not ar- rested her only because she, like him, was from Vienna. With tremendous "chutzpah," she offered to buy back the people. It was Miep who found the orange-checkered diary after the denizens of the "Secret Annexe" were taken away. She put it aside, along with other possessions of the young girl, saying, "I'll keep everything safely for Anne until she comes back." Only Otto Frank returned, and he lived with the Gieses for seven years. Israel's Trade Deficit Is Up Tel Aviv (JTA) — Israel's trade deficit increased by 73 percent in the first quarter of 1987 compared with the corresponding period in 1986, according to figures released by the Central Bureau of Statistics April 19. Imports increased by 24.5 percent against an 11.5 per- cent increase of exports in the three-month period. As a result, the average monthly trade deficit increased 14 percent compared to the last quarter — October-December 1986 — and 50 percent com- pared to the third quarter — July-September 1986. The figures do not include the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Honorary Citizen BONN (JTA) — The Bonn municipality ruled that there is no legal way to strip Adolf Hitler of his title of honorary citizen of Bonn, accorded by the city fathers, when he came to power in 1933. The matter came up after jour- nalists noted that President Chaim Herzog of Israel, who was the guest of the West German government on his recent visit, was honored by the same town that honored Hitler. It is not known whether Herzog was aware of the fact. Bonn is a twin city of Tel Aviv and sends youth and other groups on exchange visits to Israel.