Before long, Anne began to feel at home in the Netherlands. She picked up the language quickly, made new friends, and attended a local Dutch school. Her father, Otto, worked tirelessly to establish his business,
The eight in the Secret Annex weren’t the only ones apprehended in the raid: The Gestapo also arrested Johannes Kleiman and Victor Kugler. At SD headquarters, the two were separated from the rest of the
As life grew more dangerous for Dutch Jews during the German occupation, Otto Frank put a plan in motion to save his family from the Nazis. In early 1941, he began converting an unutilized annex