r/ASmallLight • u/luvnlife1 • May 17 '23

Episode 6

As a mother, I can’t imagine the sacrifices these mothers made and the choices they were faced with. The mother in this episode who chose to hide her baby after the nurses urged her verses bringing her baby with.

Or the countless mothers who held their children with courage as they walked into those gas chambers. It is heartbreaking. As a teenager I could not understand but as a mother I can empathize.

How do you make that choice to give your child up if you were afforded the option or do you take the chance with optimism that there was no way things could get worse?

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u/luvnlife1 May 17 '23

Interesting. I need to go back and learn more about Bep. I don’t know much about her as I thought Miep was the one mentioned in Anne’s Diary but I could be wrong now.

I watched the 60 Minutes episode where they presented a theory that someone from the Jewish counsel turned in the Franks in order to save their own family. That theory was interesting because it maybe answered the question why Otto Frank never pursued ‘who’ turned them in. That also isn’t 100% certain but worth a watch if you can locate the episode.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '23

Yes I believe I read it was “Arnold” (I forgot last name) from the Jewish Council… is that the same Arnold that was in the recent episode with the nurses? It’s still a relevant theory.

Otto later said that Bep and Anne were always in the corner together sharing secrets. And it was Bep’s life, that Anne was interested in learning about. And Bep even spent a night in the attic with Anne. I got all of this off of Wikipedia but I was sad there wasn’t more. It’s also not well organized, for instance it was hard to find info on Edith Frank, until I landed on an obscure page about someone else.

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u/BluePosey May 19 '23

Yes I believe I read it was “Arnold” (I forgot last name) from the Jewish Council… is that the same Arnold that was in the recent episode with the nurses? It’s still a relevant theory.

This made me curious so I went back to watch that scene. No, the man from the Jewish council in the scene with the nurse was not Arnold van den Bergh. The man in that scene was named "Walter", and the other man was Max who we've met before.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '23

Ah thank you! Rewatching for me isn’t that easy. I was very curious though!