Anne Frank continues to resonate as perhaps the most famous symbol of Jewish suffering and persecution in the face of the unimaginable horrors of the Holocaust during World War II. It was her teenage diary, after all, that remains perhaps the most vivid description of what it was like to live under Nazi occupation – specifically in Amsterdam between 1942 and ’44, while her family was in hiding and she wrote her famed remembrance of being sheltered out of view until a betrayal led to their being discovered.
It was a woman named Miep Gies, however, who provided a first-hand aural witness’s account of those hiding out in what came to be known as the Secret Annex. It’s her tale that’s told in “A Small Light,” a powerful eight-part limited series from NatGeo that premieres with a pair of installments on May 1 and streams the next day on Disney+. It...
It was a woman named Miep Gies, however, who provided a first-hand aural witness’s account of those hiding out in what came to be known as the Secret Annex. It’s her tale that’s told in “A Small Light,” a powerful eight-part limited series from NatGeo that premieres with a pair of installments on May 1 and streams the next day on Disney+. It...
- 3/23/2023
- by Ray Richmond
- Gold Derby
Netflix is kicking off the month of February with "My Best Friend Anne Frank," a new movie "based on the real-life friendship between Anne Frank and Hannah Goslar, from Nazi-occupied Amsterdam to their harrowing reunion in a concentration camp." The Dutch-language film is based on the YA (young adult) book, "Memories of Anne Frank: Reflections of a Childhood Friend" by Alison Leslie Gold, who also co-authored the adult non-fiction book, "Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped Hide the Frank Family."
First published in 1947 under the title of "The Annex," the book now commonly referred to as "The Diary of Anne Frank" collects...
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First published in 1947 under the title of "The Annex," the book now commonly referred to as "The Diary of Anne Frank" collects...
The post My Best Friend Anne Frank Trailer: The Real-Life Holocaust Story Heads to Netflix appeared first on /Film.
- 2/1/2022
- by Joshua Meyer
- Slash Film
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