Hollywood star Liev Schreiber has been cast in a limited Holocaust series that Israel's Keshet Studios will produce for Disney+, as were British actors Joe Cole ("Peaky Blinders") and Bel Powley ("The Diary of a Teenage Girl").
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The eight-part series is based on the story of Miep Gies, the Dutch woman who sheltered Anne Frank and her family during World War II.
"A Small Light" will be told from Gies' perspective, who was also the one who found Anne's diary after the family was arrested by the Nazis, and guarded it until Otto Frank – Anne's father and the only family member to survive the war – shared it with the world.
Gies, who passed away in 2010 at the age of 100, famously 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, within their own small ways, turn on a small light in a dark room."
Keshet Studios – the Israeli production studio's Los Angeles branch – will create the series in cooperation with ABC Signature with "Grey's Anatomy" writers Joan Rater and Tony Phelan. The shooting is scheduled to start in the summer in Prague and Amsterdam.
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