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Peter van Pels was 15 years old when he had to go into hiding with his parents. They arrived at the hiding place one week after the Frank family. Peter was the only boy in the Secret Annex. Peter was the son of Hermann and Auguste van Pels. The family was Jewish and lived in Osnabrück (Germany).
- Peter van Pels | Anne Frank
Peter van Pels was 15 years old when he had to go into...
- Peter van Pels | Anne Frank
Peter van Pels was 15 years old when he had to go into hiding with his parents. Together with the Frank family, they went into hiding in the Secret Annex. Peter knew Anne before they went into hiding.
The exact date of Peter's death is unclear. A list compiled by the Americans when the camp was liberated states that it was 5 May 1945. According to another list drawn up after the liberation of Mauthausen, Peter van Pels died on 10 May 1945. Peter was 18 years old.
The SS murder the Dutch Jews within a short space of time from 1941 to 1942. In the summer of 1942, the deportation of over 100,000 Dutch Jews to the death camps begins. The van Pels family decide to take a desperate step: they go into hiding with the Frank family, who are also Jewish.
July 13, 1942 Amsterdam. A week after the Frank family went into hiding, Hermann and Auguste van Pels, and their son Peter, joined them in the hiding place. The Van Pels family were given two rooms on the second floor of the Secret Annex to use. They had little privacy. The room of Hermann and Auguste was also used as a kitchen and dining room.
Van Pels family goes into hiding in the Secret Annex. According to Anne Frank's diary, the plan was for them to arrive on 14 July 1942. Due to many reports of call-ups to work, they were so concerned that they left for the Secret Annex a day earlier. [1]
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Although Stoppelman and Peter van Pels had never seen each other in Amsterdam, it soon turned out that Peter knew Stoppelman's mother and knew that she was the Jewish landlady of Jan and Miep Gies who had helped them to find a hiding place.
