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Leisure activities, Peter van Pels

Peter van Pels did woodworking and was a keen crossword puzzler.

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Soccer

A classmate at the Israelischen Elementarschule in Osnabrück said that Peter van Pels was one of the better players on the field behind the school next to the synagogue where they always played soccer.[1]

Scouting

In Germany, Peter was a member of the Jüdische Pfadfinder Deutschlands (Jewish Boy Scouts of Germany, I.P.D.), a Zionist-oriented Jewish scouting organization. During the meetings of the I.P.D., founded in the late 1920s, Hebrew songs were sung and the political situation in Palestine was discussed.[2]

In hiding

During the period in hiding, Peter van Pels brought his neutered tomcat Mouschi with him.[3]

According to Anne, Peter occupied himself with English, French, Dutch, English and German shorthand, English trade correspondence, woodworking, government economics and a little arithmetic.[4] Anne also writes that Peter became a keen crossword puzzler.[5]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Getuigenarchief, Jacobson, Rudolph: Interview met Rudolf Jacobson, 14 maart 1996.
  2. ^ Martina Sellmeyer, "Geht nach Palästina!“: Osnabrücks Anteil an der Gründung des Staates Israel im Mai 1948, in: Osnabrücker Rundschau, 16 mei 2024.
  3. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 8 July 1942, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.}: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  4. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 16-19 May 1944, in: The Collected Works.
  5. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 19 March 1944, Diary Version B, 6 January 1944, in: The Collected Works.