Victor Kugler: The Man Who Hid Anne Frank
by Eda Shapiro
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Author: Eda ShapiroEditor: Rick Kardonne
Edition: Hardcover
Published: 2008-03-20
ISBN: 9652294101
Number of pages: 144
Publisher: Gefen Publishing House
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Book Review: An Amazing Personal Account
Summary: 5 Stars
Victor Kugler: The Man Who Hid Anne Frank by Eda Shapiro and Rick Kardonne, Gefen Publishing House, Jerusalem, Israel is a fascinating look into and beyond the familiar world of Anne Frank's Diary. Shapiro and Kardonne introduce us to this recipient of the "Medal of the Righteous" given to "Righteous Gentiles" and allow us to hear his story in his own words as taken from several years' worth of interviews.
There are explanations of factors in Victor's life that were key to his placement in a position to help the Franks and the other Jews he helped hide. We are given his impressions of Anne Frank both before and during the hiding time. Krugel also gives clear and interesting glimpses into life in the Nazi Netherlands and the concentration camps he was sent to for the crime of Judengeunstigung - helping Jewish people. Victor goes on to discuss the remainder of his life to the point of the interviews and the authors provide a number of pictures and reproductions of primary documents of important times in Victor's life.
I recommend this book for anyone interested in the Holocaust or even just the story of Anne Frank. Being a home educator, I also see its potential benefit in historical studies of the Holocaust, or studies of the country of Holland. For an avid book reader, it is well put together and a real page-turner, especially the parts where Victor is speaking in the first person.
Summary of Victor 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.General Books
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