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‘I had to help them: they were my friends,’ Victor Kugler said after the war when asked why he had helped the people hiding in the Secret Annex. For helping them, he ended up in a concentration camp; at the eleventh hour he escaped deportation to Nazi Germany. Who was Victor Kugler?
Leisure activities, Victor Kugler. In the Anne Frank Knowledge Base, the Anne Frank House collects all information about Anne Frank, her fellow hiders and helpers. Here you can find stories, people and events in Anne's life.
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Police officers take the helpers and the people from the Secret Annex away. Helpers Victor Kugler and Johannes Kleiman were arrested together with the eight people from the Secret Annex. The police officers took them away. By then, it was around 1 pm: the raid had taken a little over two hours.
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.
Together with two of the helpers, Johannes Kleiman and Victor Kugler, the people from the Secret Annex were taken to the SD prison on Euterpestraat. They were interrogated one by one to find out whether they knew of any other addresses where people might be in hiding.
People in hiding. Edith Frank Margot Frank Otto Frank Anne Frank Peter van Pels Hermann van Pels Auguste van Pels Fritz Pfeffer. The helpers. Victor Kugler Jan Gies Johannes Kleiman Miep Gies Bep Voskuijl Johan Voskuijl. During the Second World War, Anne Frank's family went into hiding in the Secret Annex with the Van Pels family and Fritz Pfeffer.
