Who helped Anne Frank's family?

Answer 1

Victor Kugler, Johannes Kleiman, Miep Gies, and Bep Voskuijl were the only employees who knew of the people in hiding, and with Gies's husband Jan Gies and Voskuijl's father Johannes Hendrik Voskuijl, were their "helpers" for the duration of their confinement. These contacts provided the only connection between the outside world and the occupants of the house, and they kept the occupants informed of war news and political developments. They catered for all of their needs, ensured their safety and supplied them with food, a task that grew more difficult with the passage of time. Anne wrote of their dedication and of their efforts to boost morale within the household during the most dangerous of times. All were aware that if caught they could face the death penalty for sheltering Jews.

• Miep Gies, saved Anne Frank's diary without reading it. She later said that if she had read it, she would have needed to destroy it, as it contained a great deal of incriminating information. She and her husband Jan took Otto Frank into their home where he lived from 1945 until 1952. In 1994 she received the "Order of Merit" of the Federal Republic of Germany, and in 1995 received the highest honour from the Yad Vashem, the Righteous Among the Nations. She was appointed a "Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau" by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. In 1996 she shared an Academy Award with Jon Blair for their documentary Anne Frank Remembered, based largely on her book of the same title. She also wrote the afterward for the Melissa Müller biography of Anne Frank. She has stated that each year she continues to spend the entire day of 4 August in mourning, the date those in the Annexe were arrested. On February 15, 2009, Miep Gies celebrated her 100th birthday at her home in Amsterdam. According to her son Paul, she is in good health for her age, and still follows daily news broadcasts faithfully.

• Jan Gies, husband of Miep, was a social worker, and was also, for part of the war, a member of the Dutch Underground, and thus was able to procure things for the people in the annexe that would have been almost impossible to obtain any other way. Jan died of complications from Diabetes on 26 January 1993 in Amsterdam.

• Johannes Kleiman spent about six weeks in a work camp after his arrest, and was released after intervention from the Red Cross because of his fragile health. He returned to Opekta, and took over the firm when Otto Frank moved to Basel in 1952. He died in 1959 at his office desk, at the age of sixty-three.

• Victor Kugler spent seven months in various work camps, and escaped in March, 1945 when the prisoner march he was on that day was strafed by British Spitfires. Working his way back to his hometown of Hilversum on foot and by bicycle, he remained in hiding there until liberated by Canadian troops. After his wife died, he emigrated to Canada in 1955 (where several of his relatives already lived) and resided in Toronto. He received the "Medal of the Righteous" from Yad Vashem Memorial, with a tree planted in his honour on the Boulevard of the Righteous Among the Nations in 1973. He died 16 December 1981 in Toronto, after a long illness, at the age of eighty-one.

• Bep Voskuijl left Opekta shortly after the war and married in 1946. While she did grant an interview to a Dutch magazine some years after the war, she mostly shunned publicity. However, Bep did keep her own scrapbook of Anne-related articles throughout her life, and she named her own daughter "Anne Marie", in honor of Anne. She died in Amsterdam on 6 May 1983.

• Johannes Hendrik Voskuijl (father of Bep) was lauded constantly by the eight in hiding as a tremendous help with all matters during their early days in the achterhuis. However, his ill health was often mentioned by Anne in her diary, and he became incapacitated after a diagnosis of cancer. He died of the disease in late November, 1945.

Answer 2

The 4 helpers that helped the Frank family were Miep Gies, Victor Kugler, Bep Voskuijl, and Johannes Kleiman. Miep Gies was the main helper, but the others helped also.

Answer 3

Victor Kugler, Johannes Kleiman, Miep Gies, and Bep Voskuijl were the only employees who knew of the people in hiding, and with Gies's husband Jan Gies and Voskuijl's father Johannes Hendrik Voskuijl, were their "helpers" for the duration of their confinement. These contacts provided the only connection between the outside world and the occupants of the house, and they kept the occupants informed of war news and political developments. They catered for all of their needs, ensured their safety and supplied them with food, a task that grew more difficult with the passage of time. Anne wrote of their dedication and of their efforts to boost morale within the household during the most dangerous of times. All were aware that if caught they could face the death penalty for sheltering Jews. On 13 July, the Franks were joined by the van Pels family: Hermann, Auguste, and 16-year-old Peter, and then in November by Fritz Pfeffer, a dentist and friend of the family.

Answer 4

Otto Frank's trusted employees Miep Gies, Johannes Kleiman, Victor Kugler, and Bep Voskuijl, as well as Jan and Miep Gies' associates, helped the Frank family while they were in hiding. They provided food, supplies, news from the outside world, and companionship to the family during their time in hiding.

Answer 5

Miep Gies was the woman primarily responsible for helping to hide the Frank family when they were in hiding she told them information on what WA shappimimg and brought them food supplys

Answer 6

One of them was unquestionably Miep Gies, Otto Frank's secretary. The other "main" person is debatable, but probably Victor Kugler, one of Otto Franks employees.

Answer 7

Miep Gies

Answer 8

Victor Kugler

Elizabeth Bep Voskuijl

Miep Gies

Johannes Jo Kleiman