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The officers also arrested Victor and Johannes. After prison, they ended up in camp Amersfoort. After a few weeks, the camp command released Johannes Kleiman on account of his poor health. Victor was transferred to Zwolle and then Wageningen.
When the eight people in hiding were discovered in August 1944, Johannes and Victor Kugler were also arrested. Together, they were taken to prison. Otto Frank felt guilty, but Johannes put his mind at rest: ‘Don’t give it another thought. It was up to me, and I wouldn't have done it differently.'
Johannes Kleiman and Victor Kugler were taken to the detention centre at the Amstelveenseweg, the eight people from the Secret Annex to the detention centre at the Weteringschans. The Amsterdam prison where Johannes Kleiman and Victor Kugler were held for a month after their arrest.
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The detectives walked on from the front office to the office of Victor Kugler, who at the time was director of Opekta/Pectcon. The policemen questioned him and took him along while they searched the building. Initially, only Kugler went into the Secret Annex, but later Kleiman was also taken there.
On 4 August 1944, Kleiman was arrested with Victor Kugler during the Gestapo raid that arrested the Frank family and four other concealed Jews in the premises on the Prinsengracht. After interrogation at Gestapo headquarters, he and Kugler were transferred to a prison on the Amstelveenseweg for Jews and political prisoners awaiting deportation.
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- Mr. Koophuis
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This investigative report is based on the premise that only one thing can be agreed on with certainty: on 4 August 1944, members of the Sicherheitsdienst or SD (German Security Service) raided the building at 263 Prinsengracht and arrested ten people. It is an assumption – granted a sound one – that this was not a chance occurrence.
The arrest of Johannes Kleiman and Victor Kugler Amsterdam Aug. 4, 1944 In the 4 August 1944 raid of the Secret Annex, helpers Johannes Kleiman and Victor Kugler were also arrested. Event. Kugler and Kleiman in Detention Centre II (Amstelveenscheweg) Amsterdam Aug. 4, 1944 - Sept. 7, 1944