I ENTERTAINMENT Mary Steenburgen, left, stars as Miep Gies, the courageous Dutch woman who risks her life to hide Anne Frank, portrayed-by Lisa Jacobs in Sunday's special. The Attic Sunday's TV special recalls how a non-Jewish Dutch woman helped to hide Anne Frank and her family ter of chaos was a young woman's diary, scripted with dreams that were to be as ephemeral as the Nazis' plan to sweep the world of its Jews. Discovering the diary of Anne Frank in the rubble was Miep Gies, an employe of Otto Frank's who would employ her own system of saving the Franks and their friends. It was Miep and her husband Jan who secreted them all away in the attic on July 6, 1942, where they remained for two anxious years until the Nazis broke through the door and shattered their lives. It was also Miep Gies who brought the world's attention to the Anne Frank diary, which was published to great acclaim and serv- ed as a source for a play and subse- quent movies. Now, Miep's own story serves as a source of a wonderful television movie airing Sunday night at 9 on Channel 2. CBS-TV's The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank, a General Foods Golden Showcase presentation, stars Academy Award-winning Mary (Melvin and Howard) Steenburgen as Miep Gies and Paul (A Man for All Seasons) Scofield as Otto Frank. Lisa Jacobs, whose credits include a London production of Fiddler on the Roof portrays Anne Frank. The Attic is a story of quiet heroism, of a then-young Dutch woman who risked her future for the Franks, who tried to save a family and salvage some morality in an im- moral time. It is a story that actress Steenburgen believes bears repeating. "It is easy to say that we've all seen it before!' Steenburgen says of the story of the Franks. "But it is a story that is a special gift to the world, a very special gift. "As long as there is prejudice and bigotry in the world, this story has impact and has meaning. Seeing stories such as this is a good way to prevent other holocausts from hap- pening again. This is the best in- surance that a holocaust would not happen again. But insurance policies must be renewed constantly if they are to mean something. "I can only hope," says Steenburgen, "that this movie will!' It has meant something to her. "I read the screenplay and the book" — the film is based on Anne Frank Remembered, by Miep Gies and Alison Leslie Gold — "and I knew I wanted to play this part very much. As soon as you think the world is con- quered, that there is no more pre- judice .. . Her voice trails off, but the trail of existing hatreds in the world doesn't fade. It is as prevalent as the daily headlines. "Playing this role made me realize again what a privilege it is to grow up in America, away from all those evils" that are shown in the . MICHAEL ELKIN Special to The Jewish News loseted and cloistered away in a cramped cor- ner of a house that was more cubbyhole than at- tic, the Otto Frank fami- ly had a distinctive Jewish eyewitness view of the disintegrating morality that was Hitler's Germany. That their perspective was from a peephole in an Amsterdam attic and C not in Germany itself was testimony to the juggernaut of barbarism that was Nazism, rolling over morals and mortals in its onslaught of war-torn Europe. When the Nazis finally discovered the Jewish Frank family and their friends hiding away from the hatred that goose-stepped through Holland, they ripped through the attic, tearing the Franks from their tentative grasp of hope. What they left behind in the clut- GOING PLACES WEEK OF April 15-21 COMEDY HOLLY HOTEL 110 Battle Alley, Holly. Chris Jakeway, "Donnell," Craig McCart, today and Saturday, Michael Blackman, Chris Jakeway, Jef Brannan, Thursday through April 23, admission, 634-1891. 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