Everybody knows the story of Anne Frank. Her diary, recovered after her and her family were discovered in their hiding place and sent to their deaths, has sold more than 30 million copies and has been translated into 70 languages worldwide. The Amsterdam annex where her family hid from the Nazis is now a museum.
What is less well-known, perhaps, is the story of the woman who helped hide her. But Miep Gies, Otto Frank’s indefatigable assistant, is finally getting her due in new TV series A Small Light.
