Peaky Blinders star signs up for new Disney+ series from Grey's Anatomy producers
Cole and Powley will play Jan and Miep Gies, respectively. The couple take in Otto Frank and his family after Otto, who is Miep's boss, asks her if she would help to hide the family in to avoid Nazi persecution. Schreiber will portray Otto in the series.
The couple hid the family and didn't tell any of their loved ones or friends in order to keep it a secret, causing them both immense pressure.Otto survived the Holocaust. Following the liberation of Auschwitz and the end of the Second World War, he returned to the Netherlands and waited for his wife and children to return, eventually learning that they had all perished in concentration camps.
Miep gave Anne's diary, which she had kept safe, to Otto, and it went on to become one of the most well-known books in history., comes from a quote of Miep's on helping others – she said:"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.
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