THE MOTE IN DISNEY’S EYE: Disney+ orders series on protector of Anne Frank’s family.
Israel’s Keshet Studios is set to produce a series for Disney+ on Miep Gies, a woman who helped hide Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis.
The show will be titled “A Small Light” after a famous quote from Gies, who once declared “I don’t like being called a hero because no one should ever think you have to be special to help others.”
“Even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenager can turn on a small light in a dark room.”
Gies played a crucial role in bringing Anne Frank’s story to the world – she was the one who discovered the record Anne kept of her time in the Secret Annex, the area where the Frank family and a number of other Jews were hidden.
Sounds great — but don’t hold your breath waiting for Disney to cover these 21st century concentration camps: Disney Defends Mulan Filming Near [Uighur] Internment Camps In China.
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