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Johannes Kleiman was registered in camp Amersfoort on Monday 11 September 1944. He was released a week later due to ill health. Event. Show more Show less events Locations (1) Opekta | Prinsengracht 263 Amsterdam Office and warehouse-workshop of Opekta, Pectacon and Gies & Co. from 1940 to 1955.
After the betrayal and after the war. Prinsengracht 263, May 1941, with (from left to right) Victor Kugler, Bep Voskuijl Miep Gies & 2 staff members. During the period that the families Frank and Van Pels were in hiding, Victor Kugler and Johannes Kleiman ran Otto Frank's company. Otto Frank advised them from the Secret Annex, and in that way ...
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The helpers after the arrest. The arrest of helpers Victor Kugler and Jo Kleiman left the two companies Gies & Co and Opekta without directors. Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl took over with the help of warehouse manager Willem van Maaren. Kugler and Kleiman were held in the Amsterdam prison for one month. Then they were transferred to Camp Amersfoort.
Died: 28 January 1959. Johannes Kleiman was one of the helpers and Otto Frank’s right-hand man. It was Johannes, for instance, who came up with the plan of using the annex as a hiding place. To the people in hiding, his positivity and support were indispensable. Read the story of 'the cheerer-up'. In the early 1920s, Johannes Kleiman got to ...
From the mid 1930s, Kleiman was also a commissioner at the Paauwe clock factory, and together with brother Willy he had a pest control company called Cimex. Kleiman played a very important role in the establishment of Pectacon in 1938, and was director of Opekta from its 'aryanisation' in the autumn of 1940. He was the initiator of the hiding ...
After Otto Frank had moved to Switzerland in 1952, Johannes Kleiman once again became managing director of Opekta. In 1955, Opekta and Gies & Co moved to other buildings in the city. By then, people from different parts of the world were already interested in visiting the Secret Annex where Anne Frank had lived in hiding.
Opekta | Singel. Singel 400 was the home of the Nederlandsche Opekta Maatschappij from late 1934 to late 1940. The property previously housed the textile firm Hofhuis & Janus. It was also the home address of Joop Hofhuis in the late 1920 s, [1] and his brother-in-law owned it. [2] It therefore looks like Otto Frank was able to move to this ...
