I decided, while monitoring the recent news, to just offer another buffer to what is being touted as reality to fill your ...

Miep Gies and Jan Gies were in fact a real-life Dutch couple and much of A Small Light is based on Miep's 1987 autobiography ...

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Miep Gies, played by Bel Powley, has coffee with her boss Otto Frank, played by Liev Schreiber in “A Small Light” (National Geographic for Disney/Dusan Martincek) ...

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- Miep Gies, the office secretary who defied the Nazi occupiers to hide Anne Frank and her family for two years and saved the teenager's diary, has died, the Anne Frank ...

Bel Powley stars as Miep Gies, in 'A Small Light.' (photo: Martin Mlaka / National Geographic for Disney) Barbara Nicolosi Movies June 19, 2023 ...

“It’s not something you’d expect from a normal 20-something directionless party girl,” Bel Powley says of her “A Small Light” character, Miep Gies, who helped hide Anne Frank and her ...

I think maybe the fact that Miep was an everyday woman made it a bit easier for me to step into the shoes of this real person because she is so relatable. And that, by the way, is how she wanted it.

It’s about Miep Gies and her cohort in Amsterdam, who helped hide Otto Frank, his family, and four others in a secret annex during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.

The Gies insisted that Otto stay with them, which he did. Miep gave Otto Anne’s diary telling him “this is your daughter’s legacy.” The diary published was in 1947.

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 ...