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- The National Geographic miniseries focuses on Miep Gies and her husband, Jan Gies, who, along with a network of people, helped to hide the Frank family and several other Dutch Jews during World War II.
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May 12, 2023 · ‘A Small Light’ Tells the Story of Miep Gies, Who Hid Anne Frank From the Nazis. The new series dramatizes the risks Gies and other helpers took to protect the Jewish residents of the...
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Apr 26, 2023 · Had Miep and Jan Gies been recently married? Yes. Like in the A Small Light miniseries, the true story reveals that Miep and Jan had met at her first job and the two became romantically involved. There is some truth to the marriage starting off as a matter of convenience.
Apr 27, 2023 · For A Small Light, Rater turned that memory of a girl’s carefree spirit into a flashback scene: Anne in 1941, on Miep and Jan Gies’s wedding day. She’s skipping, giddy over the romantic...
May 1, 2023 · Joan Rater and Tony Phalen were fascinated by Miep’s selflessness. They saw a documentary, Anne Frank Remembered, about Miep in 1996.On a family trip to Amsterdam, they toured the Anne Frank Museum.
Joan Rater & Tony Phelan. May 1, 2023. ( 2023-05-01) In 1933 Amsterdam, Miep is an aimless young woman who is hired as a secretary by Otto Frank at the company Opekta. Otto is Jewish, recently fled Nazi Germany, and has been unable to secure a visa to the United States.
May 1, 2023 · Dusan Martincek/National Geographic for Disney. By Claire Moses. Reporting from London. May 1, 2023. Two days after the Gestapo’s 1944 raid on the annex where Anne Frank and others were hiding,...
Apr 30, 2023 · Yes. A Small Light is based on the true story of Miep Gies ( Bel Powley ), a woman who risked her own life to protect others, including the Frank family, from the Nazis during World War II....
