Miep Gies (Bel Powley) was a young woman who found a job in a factory run by Otto Frank – a Jew who fled Hitler’s policies with his family in 1934 from Germany to the Netherlands. Unfortunately, although, as in World War I, the Netherlands quickly announced that it would remain neutral after the outbreak of World War II, in June 1940, after only a week’s campaign, Hitler’s army took over the country. When her boss Otto Frank (Liev Schreiber) asks for help in hiding the family from the Nazis, Miep spent the next two years with her husband Jan (Joe Cole) and several other people hiding the families of Franks, van Pels and Dr. Pfeffer in a secret annex adjacent to the building office.
Bel Powley: She didn’t want people to think you had to be special to help others
“Many years after the war, she said not to call her a hero because she didn’t want people to think you had to be special to help others,” Bel Powley says of her character. Schreiber also points out that the series is different from typical productions on this subject. See the whole conversation with the two actors of “Light”. The eight-episode National Geographic series will premiere May 2 on Disney+. The first two episodes will be released first, with new ones added every Tuesday.
Filmed in Amsterdam and Prague, the series “Light” also shows that Miep and her husband, in addition to protecting eight people in the outhouse from the Nazis, through the Dutch resistance, supported many others in need, both in Amsterdam and the surrounding area. It was Gies who found Anne Frank’s notes when the family was found by the Nazis and deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and kept them until Otto Frank could safely share his daughter’s story with the world.
The story of Anne Frank and her family
On October 28 or November 1, 1944, Anna, born in 1929, and her older sister Margot were transported from Auschwitz-Birkenau to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The girl’s mother died in the camp first, and then the girl’s sister. Of the people hidden by Miep Gies, only Otto Frank survived the war. Anna herself died of typhus in February 1945 in the camp, which was liberated by the British shortly thereafter.
Publishing Anna’s diary became one of her father’s life goals. It was successfully published in 1947. Since then, numerous theatrical plays and film productions have been based on them. There is a museum dedicated to them in the building where Gies and her helpers hid the Franks, van Pels and Pfeffers. To commemorate Anne Frank, the International Astronomical Union named an asteroid ((5535) Annefrank) and a crater on Venus (Frank) after her. Asteroid 99949 Miepgies is named after Miep Gies, who died in 2010.
Source: Gazeta
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