![]() Margot Frank (Ashley Brooke) and Miep Gies (Bel Powley) in "A Small Light." Dusan Martincek/National Geographic for Disney ![]() That pays dividends later as the two are tested, separately and together, as they seek to help those displaced and endangered by Nazi atrocities. The format allows the producers (a team led by Tony Phelan and Joan Rater) to take the time to get to know the various players, including Miep and Jan’s sweet, awkward courtship. “What I’m asking you to do is dangerous,” he warns Gies, but she finds the reservoirs of strength to assist them, along with her husband Jan (Joe Cole) and a handful of others, who are dogged by the reality of not knowing who they can trust. She gets hired by Otto Frank (Liev Schreiber, terrific if barely recognizable), a successful businessman preparing to bring his family to Amsterdam to join him.įlash forward to 1940, and the Germans are marching in, eventually leaving Frank, as he puts it, with “nowhere to go,” except the annex space above the office, where his family and four others would spend more than two years. The story opens with Gies (Bel Powley) desperately needing a job to avoid having her adopted family try to marry her off to her (secretly gay) brother. Slow starting at eight parts, the National Geographic/Disney+ miniseries builds steadily, in a fashion that’s ultimately both stirring and heartbreaking. Besides the numbers, the engagement rate on both the Anne Frank House YouTube and Instagram channel was beyond expectation with many young viewers asking questions, expressing their feelings and encouraging each other to either watch the series, visit the museum or read the diary itself.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 eyes of Miep Gies, the woman who helped hide her and her family. ![]() The 7 educational video’s have about 700.000 views at the moment. Also, the series was aired on NPO Zapp, the Dutch Public Broadcasters kid’s channel this spring, accounting for another 1 million views. The top episodes are 1 and 15, with over 1.5 million views each. The series, at the moment, has about 10 million views on YouTube, from all over the world. This question links the episode to the present: the world of today’s students. Every educational episode concludes with a critical thinking question. ![]() The presenter of the educational episode goes in search of answers to the key questions of the video diary, such as: ‘Why did Anne Frank’s diary in particular become so very famous?’ or ‘Where does exclusion start?’ The background information is based on historical sources, such as Anne’s diary. The educational episodes explain and elaborate on what can be seen in the video diaries. We made educational episodes to accompany seven of the fifteen episodes of Anne Frank video diary. On our social media channels and through our educational programmes, we provide clarification and information about the diary of Anne Frank and the hiding place. The series is embedded in an educational framework. In a format that suits our times, for young people who are less likely to pick up a book, but who do watch videos on social media. The approach is similar: Anne speaks to you directly and invites you into her world and her thoughts. Anne’s diary becomes her video camera her diary letters are turned into diary videos her readers become her viewers. In 2020, more than 70 years later, Anne addresses the viewer directly in her video diary. In her diary letters, Anne spoke of her life in hiding in a personal and poignant way. In 1947, Anne’s diary entitled Het Achterhuis (The Secret Annex) was published. After her death, her father fulfilled her wish. About the Anne Frank Video Diary Project The conceptĪnne Frank kept a diary and rewrote her diary to be published after the war.
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