Welcome to the history tricks, where Annie resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

And here's your 30-second summary.

In a land full of turbulence and of oppression, a young woman helped at great personal risk to shelter and supply the family of Anne Frank, while they were in hiding from the Nazis,

an act of civil disobedience that was, though illegal, the most moral of endeavors that there

could ever be. The end.

Let's talk about Meep Geese.

But first, let's drop her into history.

In 1944, in addition to many events of World War II, W.E.B. Du Bois became the first black

member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Then it was called the National Institute of Arts and Letters. The first

Captain America superhero movie premiered. It was a serial and Cap wasn't Steve Rogers, but his

name was Grant Gardner. The first mobile electric power plant was used in Philadelphia.

The movie Meet Me in St. Louis and the radio show Adventures of Ozzie and

Harriet both debuted. Casablanca won Best Picture of the Year at the Academy Awards, and Bing Crosby's

Swinging on a Star won best original song. Fannie Flagg, Linda Ellerby, Diana Ross, Alice Walker,

Patty LaBelle, and Stocker Channing were all born, and as of this recording,

are all still alive.

Nazi resistor Betsy Ten Boom and Regina Jonas, the first female ordained rabbi, both died in

concentration camps.

And in 1944, Meep Geese picked up a collection of papers and a journal

that would go down in history. Hermina Santruschitz was born in Vienna, Austria, Hungary on February

15, 1909, the oldest of the two daughters of Karolina Centruchits and an unknown father.

That spot in the records is just a blank box.

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