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In 1925, when Miep was sixteen years old, her foster family took her back to Vienna to see her blood relatives. After she visited them, she wanted to return back to the Netherlands because she felt that was her new home.

Gies, Miep, and Alison Leslie. Gold. Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987. Print.