Opekta was a business run from 1933 to 1953 by Anne Frank's father Otto Frank, which distributed a pectin-based gelling preparation, to be used in jam making. Year 1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank ( (12 June 1929 – early March 1945 was a Jewish girl born in the city of Frankfurt am Main in Weimar Germany Otto Heinrich Frank ( May 12, 1889 &ndash August 19, 1980) was the father of Anne Frank and Margot Frank. Pectin (from Greek πηκτικός - pektikos, "congealed curdled" a white to light brown powder is a Heteropolysaccharide It traded from the building in which they hid from persecution during the Nazi Occupation of the Netherlands. Nazism, which was a short name for National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus refers primarily to the Ideology and practices of the National Socialist German
The Opekta company was based in Cologne when Otto Frank, then residing in Germany, was appointed to aid their expansion into The Netherlands. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Frank had considered moving his family there after the election of Adolf Hitler and the rise of Nazism, so accepted the post and moved alone to Amsterdam to find accommodation for his family and premises for the company. Hi and welcome to Wikipedia! Please understand that this article is frequently vandalized and vandalism is reverted immediately Amsterdam (pronounced) is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland in the west He had briefly managed a large rival firm, Pomosin, which traded pectin to factories from the Dutch town of Utrecht but decided that retail trade would be more lucrative in the Dutch market than wholesale. Utrecht ( city and municipality is the capital and most populous city of the Dutch province of Utrecht. His franchise for the Amsterdam branch of Opekta was established in September 1933. Amsterdam (pronounced) is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland in the west
Victor Kugler, an ex-colleague from Pomosin, came on board almost immediately to help run the company. Victor Kugler ( June 5, 1900, Vrchlabí - December 16, 1981, Toronto) was one of the people who helped hide Anne Frank The workforce was small; apart from a junior clerk, the only other employee was a secretary who left a few months after the company started trading. She was replaced by Miep Gies, whose duties extended from the secretarial, to public relations and advertising. Miep Gies, née Hermine Santrouschitz (born 15 February 1909) is one of the Dutch citizens who hid Anne Frank and her family In 1938 she appeared in a promotional film to promote the Opekta product, which was used to demonstrate to consumers how easy it was to use in cooking. Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. That year they were joined by two other employees, Hermann van Pels as a herb specialist and Johannes Kleiman as a bookkeeper. Hermann van Pels ( 31 March 1898 &ndashOctober 1944 was a German - Jewish Refugee who hid with Anne Frank and her family Johannes Kleiman ( August 17, 1896, Koog aan de Zaan - January 28, 1959, Amsterdam) was one of the Dutch citizens who helped Bep Voskuijl, who was the administration manager when war broke out, was employed the previous year, 1937. Elisabeth 'Bep' Voskuijl (Elli Vossen ( July 5, 1919, Amsterdam - May 6 1983, Amsterdam helped conceal Anne Frank Year 1937 ( MCMXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
After the arrival of the German occupiers in 1940, the company was re-registered under the names of Jan Gies and Johannes Kleiman to prevent it from being confiscated as a Jewish-owned business. Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Jan Gies ( October 18, 1905 - January 26, 1993) was a member of the Dutch Resistance who with his wife Miep, helped It moved to new premises, Prinsengracht 263, and changed its name to Gies & Co. The more than one hundred kilometers of canals in Amsterdam, about 90 islands and 1500 bridges have led the city to being termed the "Venice of the North" Although Otto Frank had to resign in December 1941, he continued to act as a sleeping partner when he and Hermann van Pels and their families were forced into hiding in the upper rear rooms of the building in July 1942. Year 1942 ( MCMXLII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Their two year confinement, which was aided by Kleiman, Kugler, Gies and Voskuijl, was famously chronicled by Otto Frank's youngest daughter, Anne, in a diary which was published in 1947. The Diary of a Young Girl is a book based on the extracts from a Diary written by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family Year 1947 ( MCMXLVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
Otto Frank retired as director of Opekta in 1953 and was succeeded by Johannes Kleiman, until Kleiman's death in 1959. The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The building at Prinsengracht 263 was sold to developers in 1954 and Opekta was given notice to move premises. By this time Anne Frank's Diary had drawn readers to visit the premises and a successful campaign saved the building from demolition. Opekta left the building in 1955 and five years later it re-opened as a museum dedicated to the life and writings of Anne Frank.
Sources
- Anne Frank House: a museum with a story, Janrense Boonstra and Marie-Jose Rijnders, 1992
- The Hidden Life of Otto Frank, Carol Ann Lee, 2003
- The Diary of Anne Frank: The Critical Edition, Anne Frank, (edited by David Barnow et al) 2003
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