Auguste van Pels, July 1941

Auguste van Pels (September 29, 1900 - c. May 8, 1945) was a German-Jewish refugee who hid with Anne Frank during the Nazi Occupation of the Netherlands, and who subsequently died in one of the many Nazi concentration camps. In the published version of Anne Frank's diary, she was assigned the pseudonym Petronella van Daan. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... September 29 is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar, but a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. ... May 8 is the 128th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (129th in leap years). ... Year 1945and died 2007 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination... Annelies Marie Anne Frank ( ) (June 12, 1929 – early March, 1945) was a European Jewish girl (born in Germany, stateless since 1941, but she claimed to be Dutch as she grew up in the Netherlands) who wrote a diary while in hiding with her family and four friends in Amsterdam during... National Socialism redirects here. ... A concentration camp is a large detention centre created for political opponents, aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war. ... The Diary of Anne Frank redirects here. ... A pseudonym (Greek pseudo + -onym: false name) is an artificial, fictitious name, also known as an alias, used by an individual as an alternative to a persons true name. ...

Life

Auguste 'Gusti' Röttgen was born in Buer, Germany into a lower middle class Jewish household. The family may have held a liberal approach to religion, as Anne Frank observed Auguste's unfamiliarity with Jewish history, and also quoted her intention to be baptised after the war.^{[citation needed]} In demonology, Buer is a Great President of Hell, having fifty legions of demons under his command. ... Annelies Marie Anne Frank ( ) (June 12, 1929 – early March, 1945) was a European Jewish girl (born in Germany, stateless since 1941, but she claimed to be Dutch as she grew up in the Netherlands) who wrote a diary while in hiding with her family and four friends in Amsterdam during... Baptism is a water purification ritual practiced in certain religions such as Christianity, Mandaeanism, Sikhism, and some historic sects of Judaism. ...

She married Hermann van Pels on December 5, 1925 and moved into an apartment on the Martinistrasse, Osnabruck, near the Dutch and German border, where their only child Peter was born on November 8, 1926. Hermann van Pels, July 1941 Hermann van Pels (31 March 1898–6 September 1944) was a German-Jewish refugee who hid with Anne Frank and her family during the Nazi occupation of The Netherlands, and who was killed in Auschwitz after they were betrayed to the Gestapo. ... December 5 is the 339th day (340th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Peter van Pels (November 8, 1926 – c May 5, 1945), was a German Jewish refugee who hid with Anne Frank and six other people in the Secret Annexe on the Prinsengracht, Amsterdam, during the Nazi Occupation of the Netherlands, and who died in the Mauthausen concentration camp. ... November 8 is the 312th day of the year (313th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 53 days remaining. ... Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Several members of the Röttgen and van Pels families moved west to escape the anti-semitic laws being passed in Germany and its territories, and chose Holland for its sympathetic stance on asylum-seekers. Auguste and Hermann followed their siblings to Amsterdam in June 1937 and found an apartment on the south side of the city, in a neighbourhood which was accommodating many of the Jewish refugees from Germany. There they met their neighbours, the Frank family, and in 1938 Hermann joined Otto Frank's firm Pectacon as a specialist in herbs and sausage production. Soon the families were frequent guests in each other's houses. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Nickname: Motto: Heldhaftig, Vastberaden, Barmhartig (Valiant, Determined, Compassionate) Location of Amsterdam Coordinates: Country Netherlands Province North Holland Government  - Mayor Job Cohen (PvdA)  - Aldermen Lodewijk Asscher Hennah Buyne Carolien Gehrels Tjeerd Herrema Maarten van Poelgeest Marijke Vos  - Secretary Erik Gerritsen Area [1][2]  - City 219 km²  (84. ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Otto Frank Otto Heinrich Frank (May 12, 1889 – August 19, 1980) was the father of Anne Frank. ...

As the prospect of war drew closer, Auguste and Hermann applied to emigrate to the United States in 1939 but, unlike some of Hermann's siblings, were refused entry. A year later the German Army invaded the Netherlands and within months the anti-Jewish laws came into effect. Year 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The only known existing photographs of Auguste van Pels were taken at the wedding of Miep and Jan Gies on July 16, 1941 in Amsterdam. The Gies family later assisted in the concealment of the van Pels family when they joined the Franks in hiding in the secret rooms in Otto, Hermann and Miep's office building on July 13, 1942. Miep Gies (born February 15, 1909, Vienna, Austria) is one of the Dutch citizens who hid Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis during World War II. She discovered and preserved Annes diary after Anne Franks arrest and deportation. ... Jan Gies (October 18, 1905 - January 26, 1993) was a member of the Dutch Resistance, who with his wife Miep Gies helped hide Anne Frank and her family from Nazi persecution during the occupation of the Netherlands (1940-45). ... July 16 is the 197th day (198th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 168 days remaining. ... For the movie, see 1941 (film). ... July 13 is the 194th day of the year (195th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ...

Anne Frank's diary covers the twenty-four months the two families and Fritz Pfeffer spent in hiding, and Anne devotes much space to descriptions of the tension between Auguste and Hermann and her own ambivalent relationship with Auguste. It has been suggested that Auguste's flirtatiousness and exuberance were characteristics Anne disliked about herself and for that reason attracted much of her ire. Fritz Pfeffer, 1938 Friedrich Fritz Pfeffer (April 30, 1889 – December 20, 1944) was a German dentist and Jewish refugee who hid with Anne Frank during the Nazi Occupation of the Netherlands, and who perished in the Neuengamme concentration camp in Northern Germany. ...

They remained hidden from the Nazis for two years. Auguste was arrested in hiding on August 4, 1944 with her husband and son, and the five other occupants of the hiding place, along with two of their protectors, and detained in the Euterpestraat Gestapo Headquarters before being transferred to the Amstelveenseweg prison until August 8, when they were moved to the Westerbork transit camp for deportation to the Nazi extermination camps. After several weeks in the punishment barracks, where all Jews discovered in hiding were assigned, she was selected for transit to Auschwitz on September 3 and upon arrival there three days later was permanently separated from her husband, who was later gassed, and son, who died in Mauthausen. August 4 is the 216th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (217th in leap years), with 149 days remaining. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... August 8 is the 220th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (221st in leap years), with 145 days remaining. ... This article is about the concentration camp. ... Auschwitz, in English, commonly refers to the Auschwitz concentration camp complex built near the town of Oświęcim, by Nazi Germany during World War II. Rarely, it may refer to the Polish town of Oświęcim (called by the Germans Auschwitz) itself. ... September 3 is the 246th day of the year (247th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Mauthausen is a small town in Upper Austria about 20 kilometers east of the city of Linz. ...

Auguste was sent to the women's camp and remained there until November 26 when she was transported out of Poland and into Bergen-Belsen in Germany. There she was reunited with Margot and Anne Frank, who had been there several weeks. She remained in touch with them until she was selected to work as a slave labourer and evacuated from the camp on February 6, 1945 to the Raguhn labour unit, run from the Buchenwald camp, near Halle in eastern Germany. The unit was liquidated on April 8 and the prisoners were marched to Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia. The Red Cross, who investigated the deaths of all Dutch victims of the Holocaust, estimated that Auguste van Pels died either during this march or shortly after arriving. They were certain that she was not alive when the camp was liberated on May 8, 1945. November 26 is the 330th day (331st in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Bergen-Belsen, sometimes referred to as just Belsen, was a German concentration camp in the Nazi era. ... February 6 is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1945and died 2007 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... Slave laborers in the Buchenwald concentration camp (Elie Wiesel is second row, seventh from left). ... Halle (also called Halle an der Saale (literally Halle on the Saale, and in some historic references is not uncommonly called Saale after the river) in order to distinguish it from Halle in North Rhine-Westphalia) is the largest town in the German State of Saxony-Anhalt. ... April 8 is the 98th day of the year (99th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Fortress plan, 1869 Terezín (German: Theresienstadt) is name of former military fortress and garrison town in Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. ... The Anarchist Black Cross was originally called the Anarchist Red Cross. The band Redd Kross was originally called Red Cross. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... For other uses, see Holocaust (disambiguation) and Shoah (disambiguation). ... May 8 is the 128th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (129th in leap years). ...

For the cinematic dramatisation of the play based on Anne Frank's diary Shelley Winters won an Academy Award for her portrayal of Auguste (referred to in the film, as she was in the published version of the diary as 'Mrs van Daan'). Winters donated her statuette to the Anne Frank House. Shelley Winters (August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006) was a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ...

See also

• People associated with Anne Frank

See also main article: Anne Frank. ...

References and further reading

• The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank
• Anne Frank Remembered Miep Gies with Alison Leslie Gold
• The Hidden Life of Otto Frank Carol Ann Lee
• Roses from the Earth Carol Ann Lee
• Anne Frank House: A Museum with a Story, Anne Frank Foundation