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Jan 11, 2010 · Married to: Jan Gies, 16 July 1941. Child: Paul Gies (1950) Died: 11 January 2010. Miep Gies was one of the helpers of the people hiding in the Secret Annex. After the arrest, she kept Anne's writings in a drawer of her desk. In 2010 she died, one hundred years old. This is her remarkable life story. Miep Gies was born on 15 February 1909 in ...
Victor Kugler comes to the Netherlands. Victor Kugler was registered in the Utrecht Register of Births, Deaths and Marriages in October 1920. Viktor Kugler worked from 24 September 1920 to 5 February 1921 as a mechanic at Deutsche Maschinenfabrik A.G. (Demag). Around 1920, the Demag staff installed a complete steel mill and rolling mill at the ...
Dec 17, 1981 · Victor Kugler, who provided sanctuary to Anne Frank, her family and four other Jews in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam during World War II, died here Monday night. He was 81 years old. It was Miss Frank's ...
Anne Frank at the 6th Montessori School, 1940. Photographs of Anne Frank, 1939. Frank was born Annelies [6] or Anneliese [7] Marie Frank on 12 June 1929 at the Maingau Red Cross Clinic [8] in Frankfurt, Germany, to Edith ( née Holländer) and Otto Heinrich Frank. She had an older sister, Margot. [9]
A week after the Frank family had moved in, the Van Pels family joined them in the Secret Annex. Anne had a good laugh at their arrival, because Auguste had carried her chamber pot in a hatbox. ‘I don't feel at home anywhere without my chamber pot,’ she said, according to Anne. Anne considered Auguste the ‘busy housewife’ of the Secret ...
The helpers, without whom the hiders could never have gone into hiding, were Miep Gies, Victor Kugler, Johannes Kleiman and Bep Voskuijl. Miep's husband Jan and Bep's father Johan had also pledged their unconditional help to the hiders. Aside from Jan they all worked at the office of Otto Frank.
The arrest of Otto Frank. On 4 August 1944, Otto Frank and the other people in hiding were arrested in a raid by the SD on the Secret Annex. Helpers Johannes Kleiman and Victor Kugler were also arrested. On 4 August 1944, an arrest team of Sicherheitspolizei und Sicherheitsdienst, (Sipo-SD) raided Prinsengracht 263 and the Secret Annex.
