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  1. Peter van Pels was Anne Frank's boyfriend and one of the eight people in hiding in the Secret Annex. Read his biography here.

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      Peter dies. The Mauthausen concentration camp was liberated...

  2. Peter van Pels. 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.

  3. Peter van Pels was born on 8 November 1926 in Osnabrück (Germany). [1] . His parents were Hermann van Pels and Auguste van Pels-Röttgen. He was an only child. He grew up in Osnabrück and came to Amsterdam with his parents in 1937. Little is known about the schools Peter attended in the Netherlands.

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    In her diary, Anne gave the Van Pels family the pseudonym Van Daan. Peter was the only child of Auguste (pseudonym Petronella) and Hermann van Pels and was born on 8 November 1926 in Osnabrück, Germany.

    Peter and his family lived in Germany until 1937, before moving to Amsterdam to escape the persecution by the Nazi party. In Amsterdam, the Van Pelses met the Franks and Peter's father Hermann became a business partner of Otto Frank. The Van Pelses had been trying to emigrate to the United States, and when the notices for Jews to return to Germany ...

    Initially, Anne thought little of Peter, but as he became more confident, taking on handyman roles around the annex, Anne's opinion of him changed. Romance blossomed, but in the close confines of the Secret Annex, it was brief.

    After the raid in August 1944, Peter was transferred with the rest of the inhabitants to Westerbork camp and then on to Auschwitz-Birkenau. He watched as his father and a group of men were marched away, only later to see a truck return with just their clothing. As the Russians approached, the Nazis evacuated the camp and after a long march from Aus...

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