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Victor Kugler- The Man Who Hid Anne Frank

Victor Kugler- The Man Who Hid Anne Frank

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Of all the personalities associated with Anne Frank, the most important figure, and perhaps the least know, is Victor Kugler.  Without this brave man Anne Frank would never have been able to write her diary.  Victor Kugler, the Mr. Kraler of the diary, was the principal business partner of Otto Frank and assumed managerial control of the Franks’ Amsterdam spice-importing business when the Nazi persecution forced the Frank family into hiding. It was Victor Kugler who kept the business going and obtained food rations under the harshest German wartime occupation in all of Western Europe. Without Victor Kugler, Anne Frank and her family would have starved to death a month after going into hiding and for this heroism Victor Kugler was arrested and sent to a series of German labor camps in Holland where he survived by his wits and finally escaped a few weeks before the end of the war.

Several years after the end of the war, Victor Kugler emigrated to Toronto, Canada where he led a quiet life and nobody knew who he was or what he had done during the war. Twenty years later he began to reveal his story. The modern-day saga of this righteous gentile, who was honored as such at Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority, is told here in semi-documentary style, largely in his own words as told to Eda Shapiro, herself of Eastern European Jewish background; and by many others who knew him, as compiled by well-known Toronto writer-journalist Rick Kardonne.

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Victory Kugler, The Man Who Hid Anne Frank

Of all the personalities associated with Anne Frank, the most important figure, without whom Anne Frank would never have been able to write her diary, is perhaps the least known. He is Victor Kugler, the Mr. Kraler of the diary. The principal business partner of Otto Frank, Victor Kugler assumed managerial control of the Frank's Amsterdam spice-importing business when Nazi persecution forced the Frank family into hiding. It was Victor Kugler who kept the business going and obtained food rations under what was the harshest German wartime occupation in all of Western Europe. Without Victor Kugler, Anne Frank and her family would have starved to death a month after going into hiding.

For this heroism, Victor Kugler himself was arrested and sent to a series of German labor camps in Holland where he survived by his wits and finally escaped a few weeks before the end of the war. Several years after the end of the war, when the Dutch spice business collapsed following the Indonesian revolution that nationalized Dutch holdings, Victor Kugler emigrated to Toronto, Canada. There, he led a quiet life where nobody knew who he was and what he had done during the war. Only twenty years later he began to reveal his story.

The modern-day saga of this Righteous Gentile, who was honored as such at Israel s Yad Vashem Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Authority, is told here in semi-documentary style, largely in his own words as told to Torontonian Eda Shapiro, herself of Eastern European Jewish background; and by many others who knew him, as compiled by well-known Toronto writer-journalist Rick Kardonne.

Contents:

  1. Eda Shapiro Meets Victor Kugler
  2. Holland - A Historical Background
  3. Life Before the Secret Annex
  4. The Secret Annex
  5. Arrest, Incarceration, and Deportation
  6. Concentration Camp Prisoner
  7. Liberation and Revelation
  8. Relocation to Canada
  9. Honors - Yad Vashem
  10. Conclusion

Hardcover:  136 Pages

 

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