Movie #3056 ........................." A Small Light" (Apple)

Movie #3056 "A Small Light" (Apple)  I'm afraid this month of May has been full of goodbyes to wonderful shows we have been streaming --- and there will be and have been a lot of 5's in a row, which is really different for these blogs, but here is still another one.... this was only 8 episodes, but I could have continued to watch it for days;  it was that well done.  It was the story of the Anne Frank and her family's hiding in the Amsterdam work building for several years before their capture just days before the end of the war.  Most of us know the story, but we know it from Anne's point of view because of her beautiful diary she wrote while in hiding (a staple of h.s. reading, esp.) But this point of view that is offered with " A Small Light" is different -- it is from Miep's point of view, the girl who was in charge of bringing the Frank's food and running the small business downstairs while the Franks lived upstairs in the same building.  Her story includes a bunch of other activities she engaged in working to save and shelter jews from the occupied Nazis in her country.  Most importantly, she's the reason we have the diary because she is the one that goes back upstairs and gathers it together and cleverly hides it from the Nazis, and then she gives it to Mr. Frank, who is the only survivor of the Annex.  After experiencing the Dutch Resistance Museum in Amsterdam in April, and after walking through the Annex, and seeing the actual place Anne and her family hid, I found this even more intriguing, and I recommend very highly.  5 out of 5.  Sometimes I feel people don't watch Holocaust movies or t.v. shows because they think there's all this violence involved, but really the first time a gun is truly drawn in this show is the very last minute of episode 7 --- oh, we know what they are doing, and we see fear, but we become so learned in the tactics the dutch people used to save the jews from harm -- and it is truly inspiring!  This one is worth the watch!

"A SMALL LIGHT"        Apple 2023    8 episodes       about 50 mins each

Follows the remarkable story of Meep Gies, a Dutch woman who risked her life to shelter Anne Frank's family from the Nazis for more than two years during WWII

Creators:  Tony Phelan, Joan Rater

Actors:  Bet Powley, Joe Cole, Amira Casar, Caroline Catz (Dr. Martin's Louisa)