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Friedrich "Fritz" Pfeffer (30 April 1889 – 20 December 1944) was a German dentist and Jewish refugee who hid with Anne Frank and her family and the Van Pels family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. He perished in the Neuengamme concentration camp in Northern Germany.
Fritz Pfeffer was one of the eight people in hiding in the Secret Annex and shared a room with Anne Frank. Read his biography here.
Fritz Pfeffer in refugee camp at Hook of Holland. Hoek van Holland Dec. 19, 1938 - Dec. 24, 1938. In late 1938, the Dutch government decided that all men who had entered the country illegally between 9 November and 17 December that year had to go to a refugee camp in Hook of Holland.
- Anne and Her Family
- The Van Pels Family
- Pfeffer
- The Secret Annex
- The Helpers
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...
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.
Fritz Pfeffer flees Germany for the Netherlands. Dec. 9, 1938 Amsterdam. Fritz Pfeffer was a dentist in Berlin. He was engaged to Charlotte Kaletta, who was a Roman Catholic. He could not marry her, because the German racial laws prohibited marriages between Jews and non-Jews.
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Fritz Pfeffer was professedly Jewish and very religious. According to Otto Frank, Fritz Pfeffer was the only one of the people in the Secret Annex who was truly religious. He had been raised Orthodox [1] and said the Friday evening prayers when Shabbat was celebrated in the Secret Annex. [2]
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