Should/could DU send a few roses to "Miep Gies, who hid Anne Frank, just turned 99 years old"

[ConsAreLiars]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miep_Gies

See this link for the post by skittles http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2878125 that made me realize it is not yet too late to say thank you to a decent and courageous resister to fascism.

There are many obstacles. Mainly someone who has the skills to put this into effect. Getting the DU mods to OK it, finding an address, finding an organic fair trade florist, and following through. We did it for Helen Thomas because it was not only right but because someone had the skills needed to make it happen. Even one dozen would probably be enough to say thanks.

I don't know if anyone has the skill and energy to make this happen, I don't, but I would kick in.

I don't know, but it just seems right to send some word of appreciation to this woman who put a sense of our shared humanity above fear of The State.

Or maybe just some way to send a message, a few words of thanks, to give her our love.

She is 99, so maybe roses would more readily understood than emails or letters, but it seems now is our last chance to honor her for what she and her family stood for.

[Skittles]

1. AWESOME!

:thumbsup:

[ConsAreLiars]

3. Thank you for reminding me of her, and her whole family's courage and simple decency.

A few words from another interview - http://www.ur.umich.edu/9495/Oct17_94/4.htm

On the fourth day of every August for the past 50 years, Miep Gies has closed her curtains and refused to answer the doorbell or telephone at her Amsterdam home. It was on that day in 1944 that she last saw Anne Frank, the young Jewish girl whose diary immortalized the lives of eight Jews who hid from the Nazis during World War II.

“It was the day that my Jewish friends were taken away to the death camps,” Gies said. “I have never overcome that shock. Why did these wonderful people meet such a cruel fate?”

Gies, who delivered the fifth annual University Wallenberg Lecture last week, provided a first-hand account of her role in caring for Anne Frank and her family and four other Jews who hid together for more than two years in German-occupied Amsterdam.

Although she risked imprisonment, and even death, by helping her Jewish friends, Gies said she is not comfortable being labeled a hero.

“Those in hiding were the brave people,” she said. “I loved and admired them so much. During more than two years, they had to live in a small place with little food and were not allowed to go outside nor speak to their friends or relatives, yet they were always friendly and grateful.

“I, myself, am just an ordinary woman. People should never think that you have to be a very special person to help those who need you. I simply had no choice. I could foresee many, many sleepless nights and a miserable life if I had refused to help.”

(edit out a stray boo-boo)

[Skittles]

4. I absolutely understand her sentiment

I would not see it as a choice either and don't understand people who did not help

[ConsAreLiars]

2. If there is any doubt about who Miep Gies was/is, and her values, read

this interview: http://teacher.scholastic.com/frank/tscripts/miep.htm

[Skittles]

5. wow - this is a GREAT READ!

:D

[caledesi]

6. Yes! nt

[mzmolly]

7. I love the idea, and I too would "kick in".

:hi:

[Karenina]

8. bttt!

:kick: