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In March 1941, the German occupying forces ruled that Jews were no longer allowed to run their own businesses. Opekta became part of the German parent company Pomosin, while Johannes took over as managing director. The other company, Pectacon, was dissolved, as proposed by Kleiman. Gies & Co continued its activities.
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.
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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.
Kleiman was registered as a proxy for the bank in May 1924 and given full powers in December of that year when the bank went into liquidation. He was hired by Frank as a bookkeeper for Opekta and Pectacon in 1938, but had become a close friend from about 1933, when the Frank family fled to the Netherlands to escape Nazi persecution in Germany .
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Mr. Kleiman has taken over Opekta, and Mr. Kugler, Gies & Co., the company dealing in spices and spice substitutes that was set up in 1941.
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.
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.
