‘A Small Light’: Nat Geo Series About Dutch Woman Who Hid Anne Frank’s Family Doesn’t Address Who Betrayed Them

We dont skirt it … we posit a person who could have.

There were many people who could have [betrayed them].

Theyre in the annex making jam and they believe they are going to be free soon.

Miep Gies, played by Bel Powley, and Otto Frank, played by Liev Schreiber, watch as Nazi soldiers march down the street in Amsterdam.National Geographic for Disney/Dusan Martincek

Its so infused with hope through the series.

We play the hope they were living with.

This is not the Anne Frank story you were taught in elementary school, Schreiber added.

For me, it gives you a broader perspective on what it is to be Jewish.

The limited series is also executive produced and directed bySusanna Fogel(The Flight Attendant).

Its from ABC Signature andKeshetStudios.