Tonny ahlers biography of martin luther

The Attic seen from the back.For eight Jewish people in hiding at Prinsengracht 263 in Amsterdam, a more than 2 year period of hiding came to an end on the warm summer's day of August 4, 1944.

The doors to the stockroom stood open, and the first to enter was the Austrian Nazi SS Oberscharführer Karl Silberbauer, followed by the Dutch NSB members (Dutch national socialists, allied to the Nazis) Gezinus Gringhuis, Willem Grootendorst and Maarten Kuiper.

The hiders were taken away (and apparently their number was more than expected, as a second car had to be called for), along with two of the four helpers present that day.

Tonny ahlers biography of martin luther

The remaining staff was not interfered with. Click here to see a video excerpt in which Miep Gies recounts the day of the arrest.  

Of the eight Jewish hiders, only Otto Frank returned after the war, as did the two arrested helpers Johannes Kleiman and Victor Kugler.

The Secret Annex had been betrayed, but by who?

To this day, no-one has been able