It is thanks to Miep Gies that The Diary of a Young Girl exists today. Not only did Gies and her husband help the Frank family hide in 1942, but after they were found in 1944, Gies retrieved Anne ...

Starring Bel Powley as Miep Gies; Joe Cole (of “Peaky Blinders” fame) as her husband, Jan; and Liev Schreiber as Otto, “A Small Light” draws heavily on Gies’ memoir and the showrunners ...

Miep Gies died in 2010, a month shy of her 101st birthday. About Jan, Miep spoke on her 100th birthday about the "unnamed ...

Miep Gies, played by Bel Powley, Otto Frank, played by Liev Schreiber, and Jan Gies, played by Joe Cole, look up at Otto’s old apartment as seen in A Small Light.

Film & TV A new Miep Gies show hails Anne Frank’s protector — but ignores the collaborators Though the Gieses risked their life to save Jews, ‘A Small Light’ looks away from the many ...

The eight-episode limited series A Small Light tells the real-life story of Miep Gies, who played a vital role in hiding Anne Frank and her family during World War II ...

Miep Gies never thought she was extraordinary. Born in 1909 to a Catholic family in Vienna, she was sent to the Netherlands as a little girl and fostered because her own family could no longer ...

In “A Small Light,” Miep Gies (Bel Powley), left, hides her employer Otto Frank (Liev Schreiber), center, and his family from the Nazis.

Dutch Holocaust rescuer Miep Gies is best known for hiding Anne Frank, but Gies also battled Amsterdam’s German occupiers in ways that never made it into “The Diary of a Young Girl.” ...

The greatest heroism often resides in the actions of ordinary people in extraordinary situations and times, and so it is with “A Small Light,” which tells the story of Anne Frank through the ...

Bel Powley in New York in April. The actor stars in “A Small Light” as Miep Gies, one of the people who helped eight Jews, including Anne Frank, hide in a secret annex in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.