
The Helpers Were Arrested, Too
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

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

Miep Gies was a Dutch national, born on February 15, 1909, in Vienna, Austria. Her parents were Wilhelm and Mathilde Santruschitz. She was the youngest of four siblings, having two older brothers and one sister.

The Franks were soon joined by three family friends, as well as a German dentist. A week after the Franks entered the Secret Annex, the occupancy went from four to seven with the addition of

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

At the height of the diary’s popularity-as The Diary of a Young Girl film arrived in theaters-Holocaust deniers came out in opposition, going as far as to dispute its very authenticity. In 1959, Otto Frank