Johannes Kleiman

Johannes Kleiman ( born August 17, 1896 in polder aan de Zaan, † January 28, 1959 in Amsterdam) was one of the people who helped Anne Frank's family, the van Pels and Fritz Pfeffer family than this to the right of the occupiers of the Netherlands rescue attempt.

Other helpers were Bep Voskuijl, Miep Gies, Jan Gies and Victor Kugler, who were all employees of the company and Opekta Pectacon.

When the supply of the people in hiding with food, etc., the parties acted under extremely dangerous because they would have to deal with the threat of the death penalty of the occupying power. Johannes Kleiman came after the discovery and arrest of those in hiding six weeks in SS detention in the transit camp Amersfoort.

After the war he campaigned for the preservation of the house Prinsengracht 263-267, Amsterdam as a memorial. He was subsequently honored at the 1971 Memorial of the Shoah, Yad Vashem, in Israel with the title " Righteous Among the Nations ".