Peter van Pels

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Peter van Pels was a Jewish teenager who hid from the Nazis in the Secret Annex with Anne Frank and is remembered through her famous diary.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Holocaust victim
Jewish person
person
alsoKnownAs Peter van Daan
appearsIn The Diary of a Young Girl
arrestedBy Gestapo
arrestedOn 1944-08-04
causeOfDeath exhaustion and mistreatment in concentration camp
closeFriendOf Anne Frank
countryOfBirth Germany
countryOfCitizenship Germany
dateOfBirth 1926-11-08
dateOfDeath 1945-05-10
employedBy Opekta
endTimeOfHiding 1944-08-04
ethnicGroup Jewish
familyName van Pels
father Hermann van Pels
fictionalizedAs Peter van Daan
givenName Peter
historicalPeriod World War II
languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned Dutch
English
German
mannerOfDeath death in Nazi concentration camp
mother Auguste van Pels
notableFor being described in Anne Frank's diary
hiding with Anne Frank in the Secret Annex
occupation office worker
participantIn Holocaust
persecution of Jews in Nazi-occupied Netherlands
placeOfBirth Osnabrück NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Mauthausen concentration camp
placeOfDetention Auschwitz concentration camp
Mauthausen concentration camp
Westerbork transit camp
religion Judaism
residence Amsterdam
Secret Annex
romanticallyInvolvedWith Anne Frank
sexOrGender male
sharesResidenceWith Anne Frank
Auguste van Pels
Edith Frank
Fritz Pfeffer NERFINISHED
Hermann van Pels
Margot Frank
Otto Frank
siblingOf none
startTimeOfHiding 1942-07


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