The Helpers: Portrait of Otto Frank (center) surrounded by his employees Johannes Kleimann (back left), Victor Kugler (back right), Miep Gies (front left) and Bep Voskuijl (front right), 1945.

While in hiding the group of eight received help from Otto’s employees: Johannes Kleimann, Victor Kugler, Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl. A greengrocer who was a member of a resistance group supplied them with potatoes and other foods. After he was arrested it was unclear where food would now come from. On 24 May 1944 Anne wrote: “That means hunger. But nothing could be as bad as being discovered.”