The arrest of Margot Frank
On 4 August 1944, Margot Frank and the other people in hiding were arrested in a raid by the SD in the Secret Annex. Helpers Johannes Kleiman and Victor Kugler were also arrested.
On 4 August 1944, an arrest team of Sicherheitspolizei und Sicherheitsdienst, (Sipo-SD) raided Prinsengracht 263 and the Secret Annex. All eight people in hiding and two helpers, Johannes Kleiman and Victor Kugler, were arrested and taken to the Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung building at Adama van Scheltemaplein 1 in Amsterdam. It has never been fully clarified how the SD tracked down the people in hiding.[1]
According to Otto Frank's statement during the 1963 investigation by the National Department of Criminal Investigation, he saw Margot, Anne and Edith in the Frank family's bedroom cum living room on the second floor when he came down from Peter's room.[2]
Together with helpers Johannes Kleiman and Victor Kugler, Margot and the other people in hiding were taken to the SD building on Euterpestraat. The people in hiding were taken the next day to the Detention Centre on Weteringschans, and later on to Westerbork.[2]
Footnotes
- ^ Zie: David Barnouw en Gerrold van der Stroom, Wie verraadde Anne Frank?, Amsterdam: Boom, 2003; Gertjan Broek, Onderzoeksverslag inzake verraad en arrestatie van de onderduikers in het Achterhuis, Amsterdam: Anne Frank Stichting, 2016.
- a, b Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, Centraal Archief Bijzondere Rechtspleging, inv. nr. 23892 (dossier van Maaren: Verklaring Otto Frank, p.v.b. 86/1963 v.H., p. 1-5.