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Married to: Hermann van Pels, 25 December 1925. Child: Peter (8 November 1926) In hiding: 13 July 1942. Arrested: 4 August 1944. Died: April 1945. ‘Being industrious is one, cheerful is two, coy three and sometimes a pretty face’, as Anne characterised Auguste van Pels in her diary.
- Peter Van PELS
Peter was the son of Hermann and Auguste van Pels. The...
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The date and place of death of Auguste van Pels are not...
- Peter Van PELS
Annelore Daniel, a fellow prisoner from Bergen-Belsen, said that Auguste van Pels had died on the train en route from Raguhn to Theresienstadt and that she herself had laid Auguste down by the side of the tracks, in the verge, and left her behind.
Auguste van Pels died during the train journey from Raguhn to Theresienstadt. The location is not known. The exact date is also not known but was between 9 and 16 April 1945.
His wife Edith died in Auschwitz in January 1945 and it is thought Auguste van Pels perished on a transport the following month. Peter was moved to a labour camp, where he fell ill.
Sep 3, 2019 · Hermann van Pels was murdered in the Auschwitz gas chambers in October 1944; Auguste van Pels died during a transport from Raguhn to Theresienstadt in April 1945; Peter van Pels died in Mauthausen on 10 May 1945; Fritz Pfeffer died in Neuengamme on 20 December 1944; Edith Frank died in Auschwitz-Birkenau on 6 January 1945; Margot and Anne Frank ...
Both Hermann van Pels and Edith Frank died in Auschwitz—Hermann shortly after his arrival in the autumn of 1944 and Edith from starvation and exhaustion on January 6, 1945, just three weeks before the Soviets liberated the camp.
