Straight, Real-Life WWII Character Turned Gay by Disney - Todd Starn

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• ANNE FRANK WAS GAY! SHE WROTE EXTENSIVELY ABOUT HOW SHE SHARED A BED WH HER IEND JACQUE AND THE URGE TO KISS HER. SHE ALSO WROTE ON MANY OCSNS ABOUT THE NU FEMALE FORMS ART HISTORY BOOKS. SHE SAID, “I WISH I HAD A GIRLIEND!”
• STRAIGHT, REAL-LIFE WWII CHARACTER TURNED GAY BY DISNEY
• THE WOMAN WHO KEPT ANNE FRANK ALIVE STEPS INTO THE ‘SMALL LIGHT’EXTRAORDINARY“A SMALL LIGHT” PROFIL MIEP GI, WHO HID ANNE FRANK AND HER FAY FOR OVER TWO YEARS. VISG THE SET OF THE NEW SERI, WE LEARNED JT HOW IMPORTANT HER STORY IS TODAY.JACQUELE CUTLERUPDATED MAY 01, 2023 1:50PM EDT / PUBLISHED MAY 01, 2023 4:35AM EDT NATNAL GEOGRAPHIC FOR DISNEY/DAN MARTCEKMY PY OF ANNE FRANK: THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL IS PIEC, THE BRTLE PAG HELD TOGETHER WH A BBER BAND. IT’S JT A SCHOLASTIC PAPERBACK BOUGHT 1969—ON S 66TH PRTG. THIS PY HAS BEEN CRIED OVER, RTED AROUND THE UNTRY, AND REREAD MANY TIM, MOST RECENTLY AFTER TOURG THE SETS BUILT TO REPLITE ANNE’S WORLD.YEARS AGO, RETURNG OM AN ASSIGNMENT KENYA, I SCHLED A LAYOVER AMSTERDAM TO VIS THE SECRET ANNEX. I WAED HOURS A DRIZZLE TO CLIMB THOSE STEEP, NARROW STEPS TO THE 500 SQUARE FEET WHERE EIGHT PEOPLE HID OM THE NAZIS. SO, I’VE THOUGHT ABOUT ANNE FRANK—HER WORDS AND HER WORLD THAT IS NO MORE—FOR OVER HALF A CENTURY.YET, WHILE I REGNIZED THE NAME MIEP GI, I DID NOT KNOW WHAT A HERO SHE WAS UNTIL I HEARD ABOUT A SMALL LIGHT.NEHER DO MOST PEOPLE, CLUDG BEL POWLEY (THE MORNG SHOW), WHO STARS AS MIEP THE MISERI. “I DIDN’T KNOW ANYTHG ABOUT HER IS THE HONT TTH,” POWLEY SAYS, AFTER A LONG DAY SHOOTG ON A DREARY DAY PRAGUE. “I, OF URSE, KNEW ABOUT THE STORY OF ANNE FRANK.” JACQUELE CUTLER THE PREMIERE—TWO EPISOS ON NATNAL GEOGRAPHIC ON MAY 1, THEN STREAMG THE NEXT DAY ON HULU AND DISNEY+—WAS STILL SIX MONTHS AWAY. AND BY NOW, SHE AND JOE COLE, WHO PLAYS HER ONSCREEN HBAND, JAN GI, HAD BOND. THEY S CLOSE TO EACH OTHER AT A SMALL TABLE AND ACKNOWLEDGE THAT AS MUCH AS THEY HAVE LEARNED ABOUT THE REMARKABLE HERO, THEY’RE STILL AWE OF THEM AND THEIR BRAVERY.FOR 25 MONTHS, MIEP SMUGGLED FOOD TO ANNE AND THE SEVEN OTHERS HIDG WH HER. MIEP FIED THE NAZIS AND RISKED ATH.IT’S NOT MUCH OF A SPOILER TO SAY THAT THE NAZIS HLED OFF EVERYONE THE ATTIC TOWARD THE WAR’S END. AFTER, MIEP SNUCK BACK UPSTAIRS, LLECTED ANNE’S DIARI, AND PUT THEM A DRAWER FOR SAFEKEEPG. SHE PLANNED TO RETURN THEM TO THE GIRL AFTER THE WAR.ANNE FRANK DIED OF TYPH THE BERGEN-BELSEN NCENTRATN MP. SHE WAS 15.EVENTUALLY, MIEP PRENTED THE JOURNALS TO THE ONLY SURVIVG MEMBER OF THE SECRET ANNEX, ANNE’S FATHER, OTTO FRANK, WHO PUBLISHED THEM. THEY HAVE BEEN TRANSLATED TO 70 LANGUAG AND SOLD ABOUT 30 LN PI.HAD MIEP GI NOT BEEN THERE DAILY, ANNE FRANK’S WRG WOULD HAVE BEEN LOST.A SMALL LIGHT IS THE STORY OF THIS REMARKABLE WOMAN WHO MATAED THAT SHE WAS ANYTHG BUT. THE TLE REFERENC MIEP’S FAMO QUOTE: “I DON’T LIKE BEG LLED A HERO BEE NO ONE SHOULD EVER THK YOU HAVE TO BE SPECIAL TO HELP OTHERS. EVEN AN ORDARY SECRETARY OR A HOEWIFE OR A TEENAGER N TURN ON A SMALL LIGHT A DARK ROOM.” MIEP GI, PLAYED BY BEL POWLEY, OTTO FRANK, PLAYED BY LIEV SCHREIBER, AND JAN GI, PLAYED BY JOE COLE, LOOK UP AT OTTO’S OLD APARTMENT AS SEEN A SMALL LIGHT.NATNAL GEOGRAPHIC FOR DISNEY/DAN MARTCEK AN ORDARY PERSONINCINTALLY, MIEP WAS NOT JEWISH, BUT THE ACTRS WHO PLAYS HER, POWLEY, IS.“I INTIFY AS JEWISH,” POWLEY SAYS. “I WAS RAISED JEWISH. MY DAD ISN'T JEWISH. BUT MY MOM, SHE WAS RAISED A PRETTY ORTHODOX HOEHOLD.”POWLEY GREW UP CELEBRATG THE JEWISH HOLIDAYS AT HER GRANDMOTHER’S. LIKE MOST EUROPEAN JEWS, POWLEY KNEW HER HISTORY; ’S NEVER THAT FAR REMOVED.“THE OFFER OF THIS ACTUALLY ME TO ME ON HOLOT MEMORIAL DAY, WHICH WAS SO SPECIAL,” SHE SAYS, THOSE HUGE BLUE EY UNBLKG. “BEFORE I EVEN READ THE PILOT, I ALREADY KNEW WAS SOMETHG THAT I WANTED TO BE A PART OF, AND JT FEELS SO SPECIAL TO BE A PART OF THIS STORY AND BE ABLE TO PLAY THIS CHARACTER BEE OF MY HERAGE.” JOAN RATER AND TONY PHALEN WERE FASCATED BY MIEP’S SELFLSNS. THEY SAW A DOCUMENTARY, ANNE FRANK REMEMBERED, ABOUT MIEP 1996. ON A FAY TRIP TO AMSTERDAM, THEY TOURED THE ANNE FRANK MM. THE EIGHT HOURS, WHICH DON’T DIP TO THE MDL OR SANCTIFY ANNE, ARE THE PRODUCT OF SIX YEARS OF REARCH.THEY SERVE AS -EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS, -SHOWNNERS, -CREATORS AND WRERS, AND PHELAN DIRECTED THE FAL THREE EPISOS. GI’ UNWAVERG URAGE STILL IMPRS THEM.“MIEP IS AN ORDARY PERSON WHO HISTORY HAS MYTHOLOGIZED LIKE ANNE FRANK,” RATER SAYS. “I WANT TO TELL THE STORY ABOUT THE ORDARY PERSON.”DPE HER HEROISM, MIEP WAS CIDLY ORDARY. SHE WAS STARVG VIENNA AFTER WORLD WAR I WHEN, AS A CHILD, HER MOTHER SENT HER TO THE NETHERLANDS TO BE NURTURED BACK TO HEALTH. WHEN MIEP GRADUATED HIGH SCHOOL, SHE WAS A B FECKLS FOR HER FOSTER PARENTS’ LIKG. THEY TOLD HER SHE HAD TO GET MARRIED—TO HER GAY, ALSO ADOPTED BROTHER. INSTEAD, THE TWO CID SHE’D GET A JOB.THAT’S HOW MIEP ME TO KNOW THE FRANKS. SHE HAD NO EXPERIENCE, BUT OTTO TOOK PY ON HER AND HIRED HER AT HIS PANY, OPEKTA, AT PRSENGRACHT 263. AS THE NAZIS MA LIFE MORE MISERABLE FOR JEWS, OTTO TRIED VALY TO SPIR HIS FAY TO SAFETY. WHEN DGHTER MARGOT, 16, RECEIVED PAPERS TO REPORT TO A MP, THE FAY WENT TO HIDG THE ATTIC THAT DAY. MIEP CHATS WH THE FRANK AND VAN PELS FAI THE SECRET ANNEX.NATNAL GEOGRAPHIC FOR DISNEY/DAN MARTCEK EVERYONE—THE FOUR THE FRANK FAY, OTTO’S BS PARTNER, HIS WIFE AND SON, AND A FAY IEND—WERE SAFE FOR OVER TWO YEARS. MIEP AND HER HBAND JAN (JOE COLE, PEAKY BLRS), ANOTHER HERO OF THE DUTCH RISTANCE, DID ALL THEY ULD. MEANWHILE, ANNE CHRONICLED EVERYONE’S ANNOYG HABS AND NFED LIFE HER JOURNAL.AND ’S THROUGH THAT WRG ANNE BEME THE MOST FAMO HOLOT VICTIM. WE N RELATE TO ONE GIRL, NOT TO THE NCEIVABLE NUMBER OF 6 LN PEOPLE MURRED FOR BEG JEWISH. WE KNOW ANNE BEE OF DIARY ENTRI SUCH AS: “I N SHAKE OFF EVERYTHG IF I WRE; MY SORROWS DISAPPEAR, MY URAGE IS REBORN. BUT, AND THAT IS THE GREAT QUTN, WILL I EVER BE ABLE TO WRE ANYTHG GREAT, WILL I EVER BEE A JOURNALIST OR A WRER? I HOPE SO, OH, I HOPE SO VERY MUCH, FOR I N REPTURE EVERYTHG WHEN I WRE, MY THOUGHTS, MY IALS, AND MY FANTASI.”DOG EXTRAORDARY THGSOF URSE, ALL ENDS DREADFULLY. AND YET THE SERI OFFERS GLIMPS OF LIGHTNS. IN A FLASHBACK TO THE SUNNY DAY OF MIEP AND JAN’S 1941 WEDDG, ANNE’S SKIPPG. IT’S A REMR THAT SHE WAS AN ORDARY TWEEN—ALBE A TERRIFIC WRER— AN EXTRAORDARY TIME.“SHE WAS JT A GIRL WHO DID RTWHEELS, AND THEN SHE WAS PUT TO HIDG,” RATER SAYS. “AND SO, THE ORDARS IS ALWAYS SOMETHG THAT REMAS. OH, HERE'S THE OTHER THG THAT BLOWS MY MD AND I RELATE TO AS A PARENT—WHEN OTTO SAYS AN TERVIEW THAT WHEN HE READ THE DIARY, HE DIDN'T REGNIZE THIS GIRL.”BY NOW, THOUGH, THE RT OF DO. PHELAN AND RATER DIDN’T WANT TO DO YET ANOTHER MOVIE ABOUT ANNE, HERE PLAYED WH JT THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF TEEN DIVA AND WISE OLD SOUL BY BILLIE BOULLET. OLR SISTER MARGOT, A QUIETER, NERVO GIRL, IS PORTRAYED BY ASHLEY BROOKE, WHO DREW OM HER GRANDMOTHER’S EXPERIENCE AS A HOLOT SURVIVOR.“MY GRANDMA LIVED TO THE AGE OF 96, AND SHE PASSED AWAY ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF AGO,” BROOKE SAYS. “THE USC SHOAH FOUNDATN TERVIEWED HER, WHICH IS ACTUALLY CRAZY THAT I'M [A STUNT AT USC] NOW. BEFORE THIS PROJECT, I WATCHED HER TERVIEW BEE WHEN SHE GOT OLR, SHE STARTED FETTG THGS, SO SHE ULDN'T REALLY TELL THE STORY TO . BUT THOSE TERVIEWS WERE SO SPECIAL, AND I JT REMEMBER HER HIGHLIGHTG ALL OF THE HOPEFUL MOMENTS THAT ALLOWED HER TO SURVIVE. SHE WAS NEVER PSIMISTIC ABOUT ANYTHG.” ALL OF THIS RGS TE—PERFORMANC, STUM, EERILY SPOT-ON SETS, AND THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT ON OTTO’S SHOULRS.“IT WAS ACTUALLY A PRETTY SMALL ROLE, AND I WAS UKRAE, AND THEY SENT ME THIS,” SAYS LIEV SCHREIBER OF PLAYG THE PATRIARCH. “AND I THOUGHT, WOW, THIS IS A REALLY NTEMPORARY RETELLG OF THE ANNE FRANK STORY BUT OM A PLETELY UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE OF THE PERSON WHO’S ACTUALLY RPONSIBLE FOR THEM SURVIVG AS LONG AS THEY DID. IT WAS ONE OF THOSE THGS THAT I WAS THKG ABOUT AS I WAS GOG TO MEET THE GRASSROOTS NGOS UKRAE—LIKE ORDARY PEOPLE WHO ARE DOG EXTRAORDARY THGS TO PH BACK AGAST CREDIBLE ODDS. AND FELT LIKE THE SCRIPT FELL MY LAP WHILE I WAS DOG THAT WORK AND MEETG THOSE PEOPLE.”SCHREIBER HAS BEEN VOLUNTEERG UKRAE, HIS JEWISH GRANDFATHER’S HOMELAND. HE SE FOLKS WH MIEP’S URAGE AND PRAIS PHELAN AND RATER FOR MAKG THE LIMED SERI FEEL AS IF ’S NOT ENTOMBED AMBER. ANNE, PLAYED BY BILLIE BOULLET, RECEIV A GIFT OM MIEP, PLAYED BY BEL POWLEY, A SMALL LIGHT.NATNAL GEOGRAPHIC FOR DISNEY/DAN MARTCEK THE MORN-DAY IMPACT ONE OF THE SUBTLE WAYS THE MISERI FEELS NTEMPORARY WHILE HEWG TO HISTORY IS THROUGH EACH EPISO’S CLOSG CREDS. CURRENT ARTISTS VER OLD MIC, URTY OF ESTE HAIM OF THE SISTER BAND, HAIM. SERVG AS EXECUTIVE MIC PRODUCER, SHE CHOSE KAMASI WASHGTON, WHO PERFORMS CHARLIE PARKER’S “CHERYL,” AND THE PAIRG OF KG PRCS AND ORVILLE PECK, WHO NTRIBUTE A TAKE ON BG CROSBY’S “I’M MAKG BELIEVE,” AMONG OTHERS.ALSO JEWISH AND KEENLY AWARE OF THE PARALLELS BETWEEN WORLD WAR II AND THE ANTISEMISM OF TODAY, HAIM ACKNOWLEDG, “I WOULD BE LYG IF I SAID THERE WEREN’T TIM WHERE I FELT REALLY SRED 2023. IT’S ALMOST 100 YEARS LATER, AND WE'RE STILL ALG WH THIS SH.” THIS TY WOMAN WHO STOOD UP TO THE NAZIS WOWS HER. AS HAIM NOT, MIEP WAS “A BADASS.”MIEP EVENTUALLY WROTE A MEMOIR WHICH POWLEY NSIRED HER BIBLE WHILE SHOOTG THIS.“I READ BACK-TO-BACK THREE TIM BEFORE WE STARTED, JT TO GET A SENSE OF HER VOICE BEE 'S WRTEN OM HER POT OF VIEW, AND YOU REALLY N GET JT HOW SHE WAS QUE OUTSPOKEN AND BRASH AND NFINT AND FUNNY,” POWLEY SAYS.THE SHOOT TOOK FIVE MONTHS, MALY THE CZECH REPUBLIC, WH PRAGUE STANDG FOR AMSTERDAM. WORKG ON THE PROJECT LEFT S MARK, ALL VOLVED SAY. INPENNTLY, THEY MENTN HOW THEY HOPE MIEP’S EXAMPLE SPIR PEOPLE TO ACT EVEN AGAST UNSPEAKABLE EVIL.“THIS IS SO UNBELIEVABLY HORRENDO,” COLE SAYS. “IT'S JT, LIKE, I SOMETIM JT N'T QUE PREHEND. WHEN I VISED ANNE FRANK’S HOE, YOU SEE A LOT OF THE IMAGERY, YOUNG MARGOT, YOU SEE THE PICTUR ON THE WALLS, BEG THAT SPACE.” ANNE, PLAYED BY BILLIE BOULLET, SLEEPS AS MIEP, PLAYED BY BEL POWLEY, WATCH OVER HER A SMALL LIGHT.NATNAL GEOGRAPHIC FOR DISNEY/DAN MARTCEK POWLEY SS QUIETLY NEXT TO HIM, NODDG. THE ST AND CREW HAVE BEEN TALKG ABOUT HOW RAMPANT ANTISEMISM IS. THE SAME OCTOBER DAY, WHEN THEY WERE FISHG A SCENE PRAGUE, JEW-HATERS ON AN OVERPASS OF THE 405 LOS ANGEL HUNG A BANNER THAT SAID KANYE WAS RIGHT AS THEY GAVE THE HLER SALUTE.“I DON’T THK THAT YOU FEEL LS BEG GENTILE,” POWLEY SAYS. “BUT I THK THAT ’S JT TERRIFYG RIGHT NOW.”THE SENSE OF TERROR THMMG THROUGH JEWISH MUNI THEN IS AGA FELT.THE DAY I WROTE THIS, I ATTEND AN TERFAH HOLOT MEMORIAL SERVICE, WHERE A MAN TOLD OF HIS PARENTS, WHO MET THE MPS. LIKE THE FRANKS, THEY WERE OM AMSTERDAM.AT THE SERVICE, I RAN TO A IEND, HOLOT SURVIVOR HANNA KELMAN, 93. LIKE SO MANY GERMAN JEWS, HANNA’S PARENTS KNEW HLER WAS DANGERO LONG BEFORE THE RT OF THE WORLD UGHT ON. IN 1933, THEY FLED TO FRANCE. IT WASN’T FAR ENOUGH. SHE WAS ON HER OWN AT 8—FOR FOUR YEARS. HANNA LOST HER FATHER TO THE WAR AND LATER MOVED TO AMERI. SHE STILL TELLS HER STORY TODAY BEE NO ONE MT FET WHAT HAPPENED—AND WHAT IS HAPPENG. TWO DAYS BEFORE THE SERVICE, ANTI-JEWISH GRAFFI POPPED UP— GREENWICH VILLAGE.HAIM IS RIGHT. IT IS SRY.“I WAS BLOWN AWAY BY HOW MORN AND CURRENT AND RELATABLE TONY AND JOAN’S TAKE ON THIS STORY FELT,” POWLEY SAYS. “AND THAT’S CREDIBLY IMPORTANT THE CURRENT POLIL CLIMATE. I MEAN, ANTISEMISM IS ON THE RISE. THERE ARE MORE DISPLACED PEOPLE THE WORLD NOW THAN EVER. SO, WAS IMPORTANT TO ME AND FOR MY FAY HISTORY THAT, IF WE’RE GOG TO MAKE THIS SHOW, TO MAKE ONE THAT MAK PEOPLE THK, ‘WELL, WHAT WOULD I DO?’”KEEP OBSSG! SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY BEAST’S OBSSED NEWSLETTER AND FOLLOW ON FACEBOOK, TWTER, INSTAGRAM AND TIKTOK. JACQUELE CUTLER

ANNE FRANK WAS GAY! SHE WROTE EXTENSIVELY ABOUT HOW SHE SHARED A BED WH HER IEND JACQUE AND THE URGE TO KISS HER. SHE ALSO WROTE ON MANY OCSNS ABOUT THE NU FEMALE FORMS ART HISTORY BOOKS. SHE SAID, “I WISH I HAD A GIRLIEND!”

Anne Frank was Gay!

STRAIGHT, REAL-LIFE WWII CHARACTER TURNED GAY BY DISNEY

To this day, the sexually explic nature of Anne Frank's diary (particularly due to the book's few, brief homoerotic passag) is ntroversial, leadg to the book beg banned some librari the Uned Stat.

“We know that Miep had five foster brothers – statistilly probably one of them was gay. But cidg to make Cass gay allowed to the world of the Café ‘t Manje and the fact that the queer muny the Netherlands was very active the Dutch ristance, ” wrer Tony Phelan ’s jt one glarg issue wh his argument.

THE WOMAN WHO KEPT ANNE FRANK ALIVE STEPS INTO THE ‘SMALL LIGHT’EXTRAORDINARY“A SMALL LIGHT” PROFIL MIEP GI, WHO HID ANNE FRANK AND HER FAY FOR OVER TWO YEARS. VISG THE SET OF THE NEW SERI, WE LEARNED JT HOW IMPORTANT HER STORY IS TODAY.JACQUELE CUTLERUPDATED MAY 01, 2023 1:50PM EDT / PUBLISHED MAY 01, 2023 4:35AM EDT NATNAL GEOGRAPHIC FOR DISNEY/DAN MARTCEKMY PY OF ANNE FRANK: THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL IS PIEC, THE BRTLE PAG HELD TOGETHER WH A BBER BAND. IT’S JT A SCHOLASTIC PAPERBACK BOUGHT 1969—ON S 66TH PRTG. THIS PY HAS BEEN CRIED OVER, RTED AROUND THE UNTRY, AND REREAD MANY TIM, MOST RECENTLY AFTER TOURG THE SETS BUILT TO REPLITE ANNE’S WORLD.YEARS AGO, RETURNG OM AN ASSIGNMENT KENYA, I SCHLED A LAYOVER AMSTERDAM TO VIS THE SECRET ANNEX. I WAED HOURS A DRIZZLE TO CLIMB THOSE STEEP, NARROW STEPS TO THE 500 SQUARE FEET WHERE EIGHT PEOPLE HID OM THE NAZIS. SO, I’VE THOUGHT ABOUT ANNE FRANK—HER WORDS AND HER WORLD THAT IS NO MORE—FOR OVER HALF A CENTURY.YET, WHILE I REGNIZED THE NAME MIEP GI, I DID NOT KNOW WHAT A HERO SHE WAS UNTIL I HEARD ABOUT A SMALL LIGHT.NEHER DO MOST PEOPLE, CLUDG BEL POWLEY (THE MORNG SHOW), WHO STARS AS MIEP THE MISERI. “I DIDN’T KNOW ANYTHG ABOUT HER IS THE HONT TTH,” POWLEY SAYS, AFTER A LONG DAY SHOOTG ON A DREARY DAY PRAGUE. “I, OF URSE, KNEW ABOUT THE STORY OF ANNE FRANK.” JACQUELE CUTLER THE PREMIERE—TWO EPISOS ON NATNAL GEOGRAPHIC ON MAY 1, THEN STREAMG THE NEXT DAY ON HULU AND DISNEY+—WAS STILL SIX MONTHS AWAY. AND BY NOW, SHE AND JOE COLE, WHO PLAYS HER ONSCREEN HBAND, JAN GI, HAD BOND. THEY S CLOSE TO EACH OTHER AT A SMALL TABLE AND ACKNOWLEDGE THAT AS MUCH AS THEY HAVE LEARNED ABOUT THE REMARKABLE HERO, THEY’RE STILL AWE OF THEM AND THEIR BRAVERY.FOR 25 MONTHS, MIEP SMUGGLED FOOD TO ANNE AND THE SEVEN OTHERS HIDG WH HER. MIEP FIED THE NAZIS AND RISKED ATH.IT’S NOT MUCH OF A SPOILER TO SAY THAT THE NAZIS HLED OFF EVERYONE THE ATTIC TOWARD THE WAR’S END. AFTER, MIEP SNUCK BACK UPSTAIRS, LLECTED ANNE’S DIARI, AND PUT THEM A DRAWER FOR SAFEKEEPG. SHE PLANNED TO RETURN THEM TO THE GIRL AFTER THE WAR.ANNE FRANK DIED OF TYPH THE BERGEN-BELSEN NCENTRATN MP. SHE WAS 15.EVENTUALLY, MIEP PRENTED THE JOURNALS TO THE ONLY SURVIVG MEMBER OF THE SECRET ANNEX, ANNE’S FATHER, OTTO FRANK, WHO PUBLISHED THEM. THEY HAVE BEEN TRANSLATED TO 70 LANGUAG AND SOLD ABOUT 30 LN PI.HAD MIEP GI NOT BEEN THERE DAILY, ANNE FRANK’S WRG WOULD HAVE BEEN LOST.A SMALL LIGHT IS THE STORY OF THIS REMARKABLE WOMAN WHO MATAED THAT SHE WAS ANYTHG BUT. THE TLE REFERENC MIEP’S FAMO QUOTE: “I DON’T LIKE BEG LLED A HERO BEE NO ONE SHOULD EVER THK YOU HAVE TO BE SPECIAL TO HELP OTHERS. EVEN AN ORDARY SECRETARY OR A HOEWIFE OR A TEENAGER N TURN ON A SMALL LIGHT A DARK ROOM.” MIEP GI, PLAYED BY BEL POWLEY, OTTO FRANK, PLAYED BY LIEV SCHREIBER, AND JAN GI, PLAYED BY JOE COLE, LOOK UP AT OTTO’S OLD APARTMENT AS SEEN A SMALL LIGHT.NATNAL GEOGRAPHIC FOR DISNEY/DAN MARTCEK AN ORDARY PERSONINCINTALLY, MIEP WAS NOT JEWISH, BUT THE ACTRS WHO PLAYS HER, POWLEY, IS.“I INTIFY AS JEWISH,” POWLEY SAYS. “I WAS RAISED JEWISH. MY DAD ISN'T JEWISH. BUT MY MOM, SHE WAS RAISED A PRETTY ORTHODOX HOEHOLD.”POWLEY GREW UP CELEBRATG THE JEWISH HOLIDAYS AT HER GRANDMOTHER’S. LIKE MOST EUROPEAN JEWS, POWLEY KNEW HER HISTORY; ’S NEVER THAT FAR REMOVED.“THE OFFER OF THIS ACTUALLY ME TO ME ON HOLOT MEMORIAL DAY, WHICH WAS SO SPECIAL,” SHE SAYS, THOSE HUGE BLUE EY UNBLKG. “BEFORE I EVEN READ THE PILOT, I ALREADY KNEW WAS SOMETHG THAT I WANTED TO BE A PART OF, AND JT FEELS SO SPECIAL TO BE A PART OF THIS STORY AND BE ABLE TO PLAY THIS CHARACTER BEE OF MY HERAGE.” JOAN RATER AND TONY PHALEN WERE FASCATED BY MIEP’S SELFLSNS. THEY SAW A DOCUMENTARY, ANNE FRANK REMEMBERED, ABOUT MIEP 1996. ON A FAY TRIP TO AMSTERDAM, THEY TOURED THE ANNE FRANK MM. THE EIGHT HOURS, WHICH DON’T DIP TO THE MDL OR SANCTIFY ANNE, ARE THE PRODUCT OF SIX YEARS OF REARCH.THEY SERVE AS -EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS, -SHOWNNERS, -CREATORS AND WRERS, AND PHELAN DIRECTED THE FAL THREE EPISOS. GI’ UNWAVERG URAGE STILL IMPRS THEM.“MIEP IS AN ORDARY PERSON WHO HISTORY HAS MYTHOLOGIZED LIKE ANNE FRANK,” RATER SAYS. “I WANT TO TELL THE STORY ABOUT THE ORDARY PERSON.”DPE HER HEROISM, MIEP WAS CIDLY ORDARY. SHE WAS STARVG VIENNA AFTER WORLD WAR I WHEN, AS A CHILD, HER MOTHER SENT HER TO THE NETHERLANDS TO BE NURTURED BACK TO HEALTH. WHEN MIEP GRADUATED HIGH SCHOOL, SHE WAS A B FECKLS FOR HER FOSTER PARENTS’ LIKG. THEY TOLD HER SHE HAD TO GET MARRIED—TO HER GAY, ALSO ADOPTED BROTHER. INSTEAD, THE TWO CID SHE’D GET A JOB.THAT’S HOW MIEP ME TO KNOW THE FRANKS. SHE HAD NO EXPERIENCE, BUT OTTO TOOK PY ON HER AND HIRED HER AT HIS PANY, OPEKTA, AT PRSENGRACHT 263. AS THE NAZIS MA LIFE MORE MISERABLE FOR JEWS, OTTO TRIED VALY TO SPIR HIS FAY TO SAFETY. WHEN DGHTER MARGOT, 16, RECEIVED PAPERS TO REPORT TO A MP, THE FAY WENT TO HIDG THE ATTIC THAT DAY. MIEP CHATS WH THE FRANK AND VAN PELS FAI THE SECRET ANNEX.NATNAL GEOGRAPHIC FOR DISNEY/DAN MARTCEK EVERYONE—THE FOUR THE FRANK FAY, OTTO’S BS PARTNER, HIS WIFE AND SON, AND A FAY IEND—WERE SAFE FOR OVER TWO YEARS. MIEP AND HER HBAND JAN (JOE COLE, PEAKY BLRS), ANOTHER HERO OF THE DUTCH RISTANCE, DID ALL THEY ULD. MEANWHILE, ANNE CHRONICLED EVERYONE’S ANNOYG HABS AND NFED LIFE HER JOURNAL.AND ’S THROUGH THAT WRG ANNE BEME THE MOST FAMO HOLOT VICTIM. WE N RELATE TO ONE GIRL, NOT TO THE NCEIVABLE NUMBER OF 6 LN PEOPLE MURRED FOR BEG JEWISH. WE KNOW ANNE BEE OF DIARY ENTRI SUCH AS: “I N SHAKE OFF EVERYTHG IF I WRE; MY SORROWS DISAPPEAR, MY URAGE IS REBORN. BUT, AND THAT IS THE GREAT QUTN, WILL I EVER BE ABLE TO WRE ANYTHG GREAT, WILL I EVER BEE A JOURNALIST OR A WRER? I HOPE SO, OH, I HOPE SO VERY MUCH, FOR I N REPTURE EVERYTHG WHEN I WRE, MY THOUGHTS, MY IALS, AND MY FANTASI.”DOG EXTRAORDARY THGSOF URSE, ALL ENDS DREADFULLY. AND YET THE SERI OFFERS GLIMPS OF LIGHTNS. IN A FLASHBACK TO THE SUNNY DAY OF MIEP AND JAN’S 1941 WEDDG, ANNE’S SKIPPG. IT’S A REMR THAT SHE WAS AN ORDARY TWEEN—ALBE A TERRIFIC WRER— AN EXTRAORDARY TIME.“SHE WAS JT A GIRL WHO DID RTWHEELS, AND THEN SHE WAS PUT TO HIDG,” RATER SAYS. “AND SO, THE ORDARS IS ALWAYS SOMETHG THAT REMAS. OH, HERE'S THE OTHER THG THAT BLOWS MY MD AND I RELATE TO AS A PARENT—WHEN OTTO SAYS AN TERVIEW THAT WHEN HE READ THE DIARY, HE DIDN'T REGNIZE THIS GIRL.”BY NOW, THOUGH, THE RT OF DO. PHELAN AND RATER DIDN’T WANT TO DO YET ANOTHER MOVIE ABOUT ANNE, HERE PLAYED WH JT THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF TEEN DIVA AND WISE OLD SOUL BY BILLIE BOULLET. OLR SISTER MARGOT, A QUIETER, NERVO GIRL, IS PORTRAYED BY ASHLEY BROOKE, WHO DREW OM HER GRANDMOTHER’S EXPERIENCE AS A HOLOT SURVIVOR.“MY GRANDMA LIVED TO THE AGE OF 96, AND SHE PASSED AWAY ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF AGO,” BROOKE SAYS. “THE USC SHOAH FOUNDATN TERVIEWED HER, WHICH IS ACTUALLY CRAZY THAT I'M [A STUNT AT USC] NOW. BEFORE THIS PROJECT, I WATCHED HER TERVIEW BEE WHEN SHE GOT OLR, SHE STARTED FETTG THGS, SO SHE ULDN'T REALLY TELL THE STORY TO . BUT THOSE TERVIEWS WERE SO SPECIAL, AND I JT REMEMBER HER HIGHLIGHTG ALL OF THE HOPEFUL MOMENTS THAT ALLOWED HER TO SURVIVE. SHE WAS NEVER PSIMISTIC ABOUT ANYTHG.” ALL OF THIS RGS TE—PERFORMANC, STUM, EERILY SPOT-ON SETS, AND THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT ON OTTO’S SHOULRS.“IT WAS ACTUALLY A PRETTY SMALL ROLE, AND I WAS UKRAE, AND THEY SENT ME THIS,” SAYS LIEV SCHREIBER OF PLAYG THE PATRIARCH. “AND I THOUGHT, WOW, THIS IS A REALLY NTEMPORARY RETELLG OF THE ANNE FRANK STORY BUT OM A PLETELY UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE OF THE PERSON WHO’S ACTUALLY RPONSIBLE FOR THEM SURVIVG AS LONG AS THEY DID. IT WAS ONE OF THOSE THGS THAT I WAS THKG ABOUT AS I WAS GOG TO MEET THE GRASSROOTS NGOS UKRAE—LIKE ORDARY PEOPLE WHO ARE DOG EXTRAORDARY THGS TO PH BACK AGAST CREDIBLE ODDS. AND FELT LIKE THE SCRIPT FELL MY LAP WHILE I WAS DOG THAT WORK AND MEETG THOSE PEOPLE.”SCHREIBER HAS BEEN VOLUNTEERG UKRAE, HIS JEWISH GRANDFATHER’S HOMELAND. HE SE FOLKS WH MIEP’S URAGE AND PRAIS PHELAN AND RATER FOR MAKG THE LIMED SERI FEEL AS IF ’S NOT ENTOMBED AMBER. ANNE, PLAYED BY BILLIE BOULLET, RECEIV A GIFT OM MIEP, PLAYED BY BEL POWLEY, A SMALL LIGHT.NATNAL GEOGRAPHIC FOR DISNEY/DAN MARTCEK THE MORN-DAY IMPACT ONE OF THE SUBTLE WAYS THE MISERI FEELS NTEMPORARY WHILE HEWG TO HISTORY IS THROUGH EACH EPISO’S CLOSG CREDS. CURRENT ARTISTS VER OLD MIC, URTY OF ESTE HAIM OF THE SISTER BAND, HAIM. SERVG AS EXECUTIVE MIC PRODUCER, SHE CHOSE KAMASI WASHGTON, WHO PERFORMS CHARLIE PARKER’S “CHERYL,” AND THE PAIRG OF KG PRCS AND ORVILLE PECK, WHO NTRIBUTE A TAKE ON BG CROSBY’S “I’M MAKG BELIEVE,” AMONG OTHERS.ALSO JEWISH AND KEENLY AWARE OF THE PARALLELS BETWEEN WORLD WAR II AND THE ANTISEMISM OF TODAY, HAIM ACKNOWLEDG, “I WOULD BE LYG IF I SAID THERE WEREN’T TIM WHERE I FELT REALLY SRED 2023. IT’S ALMOST 100 YEARS LATER, AND WE'RE STILL ALG WH THIS SH.” THIS TY WOMAN WHO STOOD UP TO THE NAZIS WOWS HER. AS HAIM NOT, MIEP WAS “A BADASS.”MIEP EVENTUALLY WROTE A MEMOIR WHICH POWLEY NSIRED HER BIBLE WHILE SHOOTG THIS.“I READ BACK-TO-BACK THREE TIM BEFORE WE STARTED, JT TO GET A SENSE OF HER VOICE BEE 'S WRTEN OM HER POT OF VIEW, AND YOU REALLY N GET JT HOW SHE WAS QUE OUTSPOKEN AND BRASH AND NFINT AND FUNNY,” POWLEY SAYS.THE SHOOT TOOK FIVE MONTHS, MALY THE CZECH REPUBLIC, WH PRAGUE STANDG FOR AMSTERDAM. WORKG ON THE PROJECT LEFT S MARK, ALL VOLVED SAY. INPENNTLY, THEY MENTN HOW THEY HOPE MIEP’S EXAMPLE SPIR PEOPLE TO ACT EVEN AGAST UNSPEAKABLE EVIL.“THIS IS SO UNBELIEVABLY HORRENDO,” COLE SAYS. “IT'S JT, LIKE, I SOMETIM JT N'T QUE PREHEND. WHEN I VISED ANNE FRANK’S HOE, YOU SEE A LOT OF THE IMAGERY, YOUNG MARGOT, YOU SEE THE PICTUR ON THE WALLS, BEG THAT SPACE.” ANNE, PLAYED BY BILLIE BOULLET, SLEEPS AS MIEP, PLAYED BY BEL POWLEY, WATCH OVER HER A SMALL LIGHT.NATNAL GEOGRAPHIC FOR DISNEY/DAN MARTCEK POWLEY SS QUIETLY NEXT TO HIM, NODDG. THE ST AND CREW HAVE BEEN TALKG ABOUT HOW RAMPANT ANTISEMISM IS. THE SAME OCTOBER DAY, WHEN THEY WERE FISHG A SCENE PRAGUE, JEW-HATERS ON AN OVERPASS OF THE 405 LOS ANGEL HUNG A BANNER THAT SAID KANYE WAS RIGHT AS THEY GAVE THE HLER SALUTE.“I DON’T THK THAT YOU FEEL LS BEG GENTILE,” POWLEY SAYS. “BUT I THK THAT ’S JT TERRIFYG RIGHT NOW.”THE SENSE OF TERROR THMMG THROUGH JEWISH MUNI THEN IS AGA FELT.THE DAY I WROTE THIS, I ATTEND AN TERFAH HOLOT MEMORIAL SERVICE, WHERE A MAN TOLD OF HIS PARENTS, WHO MET THE MPS. LIKE THE FRANKS, THEY WERE OM AMSTERDAM.AT THE SERVICE, I RAN TO A IEND, HOLOT SURVIVOR HANNA KELMAN, 93. LIKE SO MANY GERMAN JEWS, HANNA’S PARENTS KNEW HLER WAS DANGERO LONG BEFORE THE RT OF THE WORLD UGHT ON. IN 1933, THEY FLED TO FRANCE. IT WASN’T FAR ENOUGH. SHE WAS ON HER OWN AT 8—FOR FOUR YEARS. HANNA LOST HER FATHER TO THE WAR AND LATER MOVED TO AMERI. SHE STILL TELLS HER STORY TODAY BEE NO ONE MT FET WHAT HAPPENED—AND WHAT IS HAPPENG. TWO DAYS BEFORE THE SERVICE, ANTI-JEWISH GRAFFI POPPED UP— GREENWICH VILLAGE.HAIM IS RIGHT. IT IS SRY.“I WAS BLOWN AWAY BY HOW MORN AND CURRENT AND RELATABLE TONY AND JOAN’S TAKE ON THIS STORY FELT,” POWLEY SAYS. “AND THAT’S CREDIBLY IMPORTANT THE CURRENT POLIL CLIMATE. I MEAN, ANTISEMISM IS ON THE RISE. THERE ARE MORE DISPLACED PEOPLE THE WORLD NOW THAN EVER. SO, WAS IMPORTANT TO ME AND FOR MY FAY HISTORY THAT, IF WE’RE GOG TO MAKE THIS SHOW, TO MAKE ONE THAT MAK PEOPLE THK, ‘WELL, WHAT WOULD I DO?’”KEEP OBSSG! SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY BEAST’S OBSSED NEWSLETTER AND FOLLOW ON FACEBOOK, TWTER, INSTAGRAM AND TIKTOK. JACQUELE CUTLER

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