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

Hello, and welcome back to the show. Today is the second part of our coverage of MEP Geese.

We recommend that you go ahead and listen to part one before this and as a matter of fact,

you might want to even go back and listen to our Anne Frank episode before proceeding.

Nevertheless, since you're here, we'll give you a teeny tiny recap of what we covered in part

one. When we left MEEP in part one, it was 1942. She was 33 years old. She was a naturalized

citizen of the Netherlands, born in Austria, raised in Amsterdam, she married a Dutch citizen,

and had worked in the offices of Opecta. It was a company that primarily produced and sold pectin

for making jam and spices for making sausage.

Meep was very close to her boss and his family, the Franks, Otto, Edith, Margo, and Anne.

It's World War II. The German Nazis had recently taken control of the Netherlands,

and they were instituting their anti-Semitic laws. The Frank family was

Jewish. At the end of Part 1, Otto Frank had just asked Meep, if the Frank family were to go into hiding,

would Meep do what she could to help them stay that way? Meep didn't hesitate for one second.

She said, of course. Even though the penalty for helping

Jewish people went all the way up to being executed and certainly extended to being sent away

to a work camp. There were very, very high stakes, and Meep did not hesitate. Not at all. She didn't

ask a lot of questions she figured

that the less she knew the less she had to confess if she was ever under the very real possibility

of being questioned by the nazi authorities she did ask her husband yon who was a social worker

and who had also begun working for a resistance organization, if he would help as well.

And he said, sure, yes.

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