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Feb 9, 2010 · Otto also asked his employees Johannes Kleiman, Victor Kugler en Bep Voskuijl to help.
Dec 18, 2008 · Johannes was released after just one week due to his ill-health. He returned to the offices where he was greeted by Bep and Miep like an old friend and took over the running of the company...
He was the initiator of the hiding period in the Secret Annex, and was one of the helpers during the entire period. His name appears several times in Anne's diary. During the raid on 4 August 1944, Kleiman was also arrested and spent several weeks incarcerated.
Unfortunately, Johannes Kleiman did not live to witness the opening of the Anne Frank House on 3 May 1960. He died on 28 January 1959, sitting at his desk. Otto Frank held the eulogy at his funeral.
- Early Life
- Life in Hiding
- The Diary
- Arrest, Capture and Death
- Publication of The Diary
- Legacy
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Anne Frank was born Annelies Marie Frank on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany, to Otto and Edith Frank, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Otto Frank had been a lieutenant in the German army in World War I and then became a businessman. Anne's sister, Margot, was three years older. The Franks were progressive Jews who live...
For two years, eight people lived in the Secret Annex, according to Muller. The four Franks were joined by Hermann and Auguste van Pels and their 16-year-old son, Peter. In November 1942, Fritz Pfeffer, a dentist and friend of the Frank family, moved in. Pfeffer is referred to as Albert Dussel in many editions of Anne's diary because she sometimes ...
Anne wanted to be a professional journalist when she grew up. She kept several notebooks when in hiding. While her first and most famous was the red-checked notebook, when that ran out of space, she moved on to others, according to the Anne Frank House. Anne made detailed entries throughout her time in the Secret Annex. She wrote, "The nicest part ...
On Aug. 4, 1944, German police stormed the Secret Annex. Everyone in hiding was arrested. It is unknown how the police discovered the annex. Theories include betrayal, perhaps by the warehouse staff or helper Bep Voskuijl's sister Nelly. In December 2016, the Anne Frank House published a new theorybased on the organization's investigations. This id...
Miep Gies found Anne's diary after the arrest. After hearing of Anne's death, Gies gave the diary to Otto, who had returned to Amsterdam. According to the Anne Frank House, Otto read her diary, which he said was "a revelation. There, was revealed a completely different Anne to the child that I had lost. I had no idea of the depths of her thoughts a...
"Anne's descriptions of the time in hiding in the Secret Annex; her powers of observation and self-reflection; her fears, hopes and dreams still make a deep impression on readers worldwide," Bekker told Live Science. "Through Anne's diary, people begin to learn about the Second World War and the Holocaust, and they read about how it is to be exclud...
Johannes Kleiman had a major role in commemorating Anne Frank and the other people in hiding between the end of World War II and his death in 1959. He was involved in the first publication of Anne Frank's diary in 1947.
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At this moment, the family decided to go into hiding. Otto’s business was on the Prinsengracht and together with his business partner Hermann van Pels, who was also Jewish, and Johannes Kleiman and Victor Kugler, who were employees, they organised for the family to disappear from everyday life and go into hiding.
