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Jun 6, 1900 - Dec 14, 1981. Victor Kugler 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, The Diary of a Young Girl, he was referred to under the name Mr. Kraler. Kugler was born in Hohenelbe in the German-speaking part of ...
The office staff worked on the first floor of the main house. Miep Gies, Johannes Kleiman, and Bep Voskuijl worked in the front room, Victor Kugler worked in the back room. They had to keep the company running. And more importantly: they took care of the people in hiding in the Secret Annex.
Victor Kugler 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.
1944 Discovered and arrested. 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.
Sept. 11, 1944 Amersfoort. After their arrest, helpers Johannes Kleiman and Victor Kugler were held prisoner in Amsterdam from 4 August to 11 September. They stayed in adjacent cells. Then, they were taken to the Amersfoort prison camp. This was a SS prison camp for political prisoners and other criminal cases.
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. Get to know them here.
Victor Kugler was born on 06.06.1900 as the illegitimate son of Emilia Kugler and an unknown father in Hohenelbe in the Austro-Hungarian Sudetenland. He spends four years of his childhood in the Rhineland, but returns to Austria-Hungary.
