(Jewish Group) New series about the Anne Frank story is under attack by antisemitic trolls, creators
Antisemitic trolls almost immediately began attacking a new Disney+ show about Miep Gies, who helped hide Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis, when its creators posted a teaser trailer online earlier this month, they told The Independent.
A Small Light, starring Liev Schreiber and Bel Powley, is a National Geographic production that debuts 2 May on Disney+. Husband-and-wife team Joan Rater and Tony Phelan, famed as Grey’s Anatomy showrunners, are credited as writers and producers on the show, along with producer/director Susanna Fogel.
“Joan and I posted the trailer on our Facebook pages, and immediately some trolling, antisemitic memes, were popping up -- and people were posting on the sites that were posting the trailers to promote the show,” Ms Fogel told The Independent in the run-up to the show’s debut.
The plot focuses on Miep Gies, a spirited young newlywed employee of Otto Frank, and her husband, Jan, a social worker, who worked bravely to ferry food, provisions and news of the outside world to the Franks and four other Jews hidden in secret rooms within the building that housed Mr Frank’s business. Miep, Jan and others in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam risked their own safety every day to help their friends, who were tragically discovered in August 1944.
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I am shocked!
While I will likely watch this, I do hope at some point directors will actually start telling the stories of BRAVE and RESOURCEFUL JEWS who fought back, who helped others by hook or crook, and move away from the "righteous" stories.