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Recent months have seen the publication of a memoir by her childhood friend, Jacqueline (Joopie) van Maarsen, and a biography of Fritz Pfeffer, a dentist in hiding with the Frank family who was ...
Shortly, they were joined there by the three members of the Jewish family Van Daan, and several months later by the dentist Albert Dussel. These eight lived together for two years, unseen and unheard by the world outside, except that their Dutch friends came stealthily to minister to them.
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- Before Going Into Hiding
- Within The Frank Family
- Within The Van Pels Family
- Inside The Secret Annex
- Between The People in Hiding and The Helpers
- Between Helpers
- Between Helpers and The Outside World
- 'Resonance'
Anne regularly writes about her friends and classmates, as well as others from before going into hiding. Among other things, she describes classmates and teachers at the Montessori school. An important relationship for Anne was the one with her classmate Hanneli Goslar. She also mentions the entire class 1 L II and all her teachers at the Jewish Ly...
After Grandma Holländer's death, even before going into hiding, domestic peace deteriorated, according to Anne. Anne was fond of her father, while her relationship with her mother was problematic. Anne and Margot were also not very familiar with each other. Margot wanted to be, but Anne held back. Otto Frank believed that the much more mature Margo...
Anne sometimes describes the family in mild, but more often in sharp terms. Many of these involve quarrels between the Van Pels spouses. In September '42, there was a fuss about a book Peter was not allowed to read. He argued about it with his parents for several days, and his father flew into a rage when Peter shouted something down the stovepipe ...
Miep said the following about Otto Frank's role during the period in hiding, in response to his dependence on the helpers:'But, in the secret annex itself with the people in hiding, he was the boss again: what Mr Frank said, that was done. He decided, he had the last word, on what had to be done.' She also said: 'he was the boss, wasn't he, of the ...
Van Pels and Otto were angry with Kugler for jeopardising the business relationship with W.F. Westermann and C.W. Heijbroek. Kugler in turn was angry when the people in hiding were lax with security, such as the time the bolt was not released in time and he had to climb in via Keg. In July 1943, Pfeffer was angry because Kugler had gone to hand in ...
There was a hierarchical distinction between the helpers. Kugler and Kleiman were directors of the companies, Miep and Bep the office girls. When there was merriment in the office over a phone call, Anne writes:'the directors together with the office girls make the greatest fun!' During the raid on 4 August 1944, Kleiman sent Bep with his wallet to...
Several times in Anne's diary there is mention of the Amende family. This is the family who owned the boarding house where Jan Gies lived from 1936 and with whom he and Miep were friends. There were items belonging to the Franks in storage at this address, and Miep said in an interview that this family knew nothing about her helping people in hidin...
With Anne as virtually the only source, a distorted picture of the other people in hiding emerges. Pfeffer and the Van Pels couple in particular do not come off very well in her account. Because the scriptwriters of the stage adaptation adopted Anne's negative qualifications, conflicts arose from this years later. When the American play made the di...
In November 1942, Fritz Pfeffer, a dentist and friend of the Frank family, moved in. Pfeffer is referred to as Albert Dussel in many editions of Anne's diary because she sometimes used pseudonyms.
Character Analysis. Having no kids and no family makes Mr. Dussel pretty horrible. Or maybe he was horrible before that. Either way, he's a fussy old guy who's got little to no redeeming qualities. He doesn't respect Anne at all, but asks for her respect simply because. He is overwhelmingly selfish, never offering a helping hand or even a thank ...
Tragically, the Franks, the van Daans, and Mr. Dussel were discovered on August 4, 1944 and sent to the camps just two months after Anne turned fifteen. Only Otto Frank survived. He found his daughter’s diary when he returned after the war and decided to fulfill Anne’s dream of having her words inform and inspire others, and had it ...
The Netherlands also respected the Nuremberg Laws passed in Germany in 1935, which forbid marriage between Aryans and Jews. This is why Fritz Pfeffer (a.k.a. Albert Dussel) was not able to marry his Christian girlfriend Charlotte Kaletta. Many Jews tried to flee the Netherlands after the Germans invaded, but most were unsuccessful.
