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On 16 November 1942, Fritz Pfeffer went into hiding in the Secret Annex. He was the dentist of Miep Gies and an acquaintance of Otto and Edith Frank. His fiancé Charlotte Kaletta had been a guest at the wedding of Miep and Jan Gies the previous year.
- Philosophy of life, Fritz Pfeffer
In her diary, Anne Frank makes no allusion to religiosity in...
- Fritz Pfeffer in military service
Fritz Pfeffer served as a non-commissioned officer in the...
- Philosophy of life, Fritz Pfeffer
It states that Fritz Pfeffer died at nine o'clock in the morning on 20 December 1944 from enterocolitis: an inflammation of the intestinal mucosa. [1] Enterocolitis causes diarrhoea, leads to dysentery without treatment and eventually death. [2] His marital status was given as 'divorced'.
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On 16 November 1942, Fritz Pfeffer went into hiding in the Secret Annex. He was the dentist of Miep Gies and an acquaintance of Otto and Edith Frank. His fiancé Charlotte Kaletta had been a guest at the wedding of Miep and Jan Gies the previous year. Pfeffer had told his landlord that he would be hospitalised.
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The Frank family was not unanimously devout. Hanneli recounted years later how Margot and Edith regularly went to synagogue, while Otto and Anne stayed at home. Otto Frank said in a 1977 interview that his family did not eat pork when their religious grandmother visited. According to her husband, Edith prayed in the Secret Annex every Friday.Otto a...
Among the Van Pels family, there was no evidence of any affinity with belief. The same applies to the brothers, sisters and parents of both spouses. Of course, this does not mean that there were no religious feelings in these families, but it does mean that there are no sources to prove this. However, the family does appear in the records of the Sy...
From Anne's descriptions, Fritz Pfeffer emerges as a religious man. In one of her stories, she describes how she had to witness Pfeffer praying on Sunday mornings. According to Otto Frank, Pfeffer said his prayers every Friday, a day that is also a more logical one for a believing Jew than a Sunday. Furthermore, Pfeffer had divorced his first wife,...
There was no explicit enforcement of food laws during the hiding period. On the contrary: eel appeared on the table in the summer of 1942.A few weeks later it was Yom Kippur, the most important holiday in the Jewish rite. Anne mentioned this day in passing, emphasising how peaceful and quiet it was. In December '43, St Nicholas, Christmas and Hanuk...
Victor Kugler and Miep Gies both came from old Austria, a predominantly Catholic area. There are no signs of an emphatic religious life. When Kugler remarried after the death of his first wife, it was according to all the rules of Catholic faith. Kleiman's family came from a Reformed area, but his father had - as his daughter put it -"departed from...
Friedrich "Fritz" Pfeffer (1889—1944) was a German-born Jewish dentist who hid with Anne Frank in Amsterdam during the Holocaust (1941—1945). According to camp records, he died on 20 December 1944 in Neugamme (outside of Hamburg).
