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Victor Kugler was an employee of Otto Frank and one of the helpers of the people in hiding in the Secret Annex. Read his biography here.
Victor Kugler (5 June 1900 – 14 December 1981) was one of the people who helped hide Anne Frank and her family and friends during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. In Anne Frank's posthumously published diary, Het Achterhuis, known in English as The Diary of a Young Girl, he was referred to under the pseudonym Mr. Kraler.
- Austrian, at birth; then, Dutch; later, Canadian
- Mr Kraler
- Worker at Opekta
Dec 17, 2008 · Victor Kugler was born in June 1900 in Hohenelbe, Austria-Hungary (which is now known as Vrchlabi in the Czech Republic.) Before the Secret Annex. Victor was in the Austrian Marines...
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.
After he retired, and with the agreement of Otto Frank and the Anne Frank House, he gave a large number of lectures on the history of the Secret Annex and on the diary. In the late seventies his health, especially his mental health, declined.
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On 4 August 1944, the people hiding in the Secret Annex were discovered in a Sicherheitsdienst raid. Together with Victor Kugler and Jo Kleiman, two of the helpers, they were arrested and interrogated. The next day, they were locked up in House of Detention I in Amsterdam.
In late March 1945, Victor Kugler was sent to Germany on foot with about 600 fellow prisoners. Near Zevenaar, the column came under fire from British aircraft. Kugler took advantage of the confusion and escaped. After a few days, he arrived home in Hilversum.
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