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The arrest of helpers Victor Kugler and Jo Kleiman left the two companies Gies & Co and Opekta without directors. Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl took over with the help of warehouse manager Willem van Maaren. Kugler and Kleiman were held in the Amsterdam prison for one month. Then they were transferred to Camp Amersfoort.
Victor Kugler started working for Otto Frank in 1933. Otto had just started trading in pectin, a gelling agent for making jam. Victor kept track of the orders and explored options for increasing their sales. His colleague Miep Gies described him as ‘a husky, good-looking man, dark-haired and precise. He was always serious, never joked.’.
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After Otto Frank had moved to Switzerland in 1952, Johannes Kleiman once again became managing director of Opekta. In 1955, Opekta and Gies & Co moved to other buildings in the city. By then, people from different parts of the world were already interested in visiting the Secret Annex where Anne Frank had lived in hiding.
Amsterdam Aug. 4, 1944. On 4 August 1944, an arrest team of Sicherheitspolizei und Sicherheitsdienst raided Prinsengracht 263 and the Secret Annex. All eight people in hiding and two helpers, Johannes Kleiman and Victor Kugler, were arrested. Event.
Johannes Kleiman returned unexpectedly at the end of September 1944, the Germans had released him on account of his poor health. Victor Kugler came home after the war. Click here to see a video excerpt in which Miep Gies recounts the day of the arrest.
Dec 27, 2022 · On 12 December 1941, Otto Frank stepped down as a director at Opekta's shareholders' meeting, the purpose of which was to pro forma 'Aryanise' the company. Johannes Kleiman immediately accepted the appointment as managing director.
The next day, the people in hiding were transferred to Detention Centre at the Weteringschans and from there transported to Westerbork on 8 August 1944. After interrogation, Kleiman and Kugler were locked up in Detention Centre II on the Amstelveenseweg (Havenstraat 6).
