AN UNLIKELY HERO
Miep Gies was a recently married young office worker living in Amsterdam in 1942. As German occupiers tightened their grip on the city, Gies’s boss, Otto Frank, asked her to hide him and his family from the Nazis, who were sending Jews to concentration camps. For the next two years, Gies
When she could no longer protect the family-when the Nazis finally came and took them away in 1944—Gies kept their story alive by saving Anne Frank’s
Later in Gies’s life, people called her heroic. Believing she simply did what she could in evil times, she is said to have made this
A Small Light tells Gies’s story in an eight-part mini-series shot in Amsterdam and Prague. In interviews on location, its creators and actors
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Phelan and Rater, married for 30 years, created, executive produced, and wrote the miniseries after six years of research. It was a 1995
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, excited over the romantic ceremony. Then within a year, her life would be
One bright spot for Anne was visits from Gies, who
The girl who wanted to be a famous writer became one, of course. Still, no one would ever read
A.sacrificed | B.saved | C.rescued | D.risked |
A.jewellery | B.journal | C.journey | D.justice |
A.declaration | B.release | C.response | D.statement |
A.concentrated | B.emphasize | C.reflected | D.relied |
A.As | B.If | C.Until | D.While |
A.base | B.basis | C.foundation | D.scale |
A.documentary | B.history | C.memory | D.victory |
A.spared | B.sparked | C.stacked | D.steered |
A.slim | B.steady | C.steep | D.stubborn |
A.anything | B.everything | C.nothing | D.something |
A.fed | B.ferried | C.fetched | D.filled |
A.road | B.role | C.round | D.route |
A.passion | B.regret | C.urge | D.weight |
A.articles | B.chapters | C.columns | D.entries |
A.perspective | B.potential | C.promise | D.prospect |
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