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Married to: Loes van Langen, 22 Oktober 1953. Died: 14 December 1981. ‘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.
Johannes Kleiman became a member of the board of Opekta and the company was established at his home address for the next five months until it moved to Prinsengracht 263 at the end of 1940. He officially joined as bookkeeper for both Opekta and Pectacon, with Victor Kugler and secretary Bep Voskuijl for Pectacon, and Otto Frank and his secretary ...
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- Mr. Koophuis
- Board Worker of Opekta
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Kugler and his first wife, Laura Maria Buntenbach-Kugler, lived in Hilversum during the war, a distance of about 26 kilometres (16 mi) from Amsterdam. From July 1942 to August 1944, Kugler aided his colleagues Miep Gies , Johannes Kleiman and Bep Voskuijl in the concealment of eight people, including Anne Frank, in a sealed-off annex in their ...
- Austrian, at birth; then, Dutch; later, Canadian
- Mr Kraler
- Worker at Opekta
With the arrest of helpers Victor Kugler and Jo Kleiman, the management of Gies & Co and Opekta was gone. The three other helpers, Miep and Jan Gies and Bep Voskuijl, remained free and continued the businesses. Kleiman returned to the office after his release (18 September 1944). Subject.
Victor Kugler died at the age of 81 in a Canadian hospital. Addresses: Eemnesserweg 56, Hilversum ('40-'55). Kugler lived in Hohenelbe and at different places in the Ruhr.
In the 4 August 1944 raid of the Secret Annex, helpers Johannes Kleiman and Victor Kugler were also arrested. On 4 August 1944 around 10.30 am, an arrest team raided the building on Prinsengracht. [1] The policemen drove a car ahead, got out, whereupon one of the Dutch detectives asked the warehouse staff something, who directed him to the ...
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.
