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Van Pels family goes into hiding in the Secret Annex

Event

July 16, 1942

52.37521 N 4.884335 E

Prinsengracht 263

Amsterdam

Nederland

According to Anne Frank's diary, the plan was for them to arrive on 14 July 1942. Due to many reports of call-ups to work, they were so concerned that they left for the Secret Annex a day earlier.[1] Incidentally, Peter was not yet 16, and both his parents had been born before 1902, meaning they were not among the first-ever called-up categories.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version B, 14 August 1942, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.