On this day in 1933, Miep started work at Opekta, the company that Otto Frank had founded in Amsterdam a few months earlier. Opekta was a company which was licensed to sell pectin. Opekta was also the name of the gelling agent used to make homemade jam.

It was located at Prinsengracht 263. The back of the building became the hiding place of the Frank family, the Van Pels family and Fritz Pfeffer.

In this video Miep Gies talks about her new job at Opekta.
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The Anne Frank House was established on 3 May 1957 in cooperation with Otto Frank, Anne Frank’s father. The Anne Frank House is an independent organisation dedicated to the preservation of the place where Anne Frank went into hiding and wrote her diary during the Second World War. The organisation brings the life story and the work of Anne Frank to the attention of as many people as possible worldwide, partly with the aim of raising awareness of the dangers of antisemitism, racism and discrimination and the importance of freedom, equal rights and democracy.