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Leisure activities, Peter van Pels

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

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Vervaardiger onbekend. Fotocollectie: Anne Frank Stichting

Peter van Pels met een groep vrienden op een voetbalveldje achter de Israelischen Elementarschule, Osnabrück, 1936. V.l.n.r. Rudolf Jacobson, Simin Siegbert Schoeps, Martin Trepp, Peter van Pels, Ewald Aul, Fritz Loewenstein en Ernst Weinberg.

Vervaardiger onbekend. Fotocollectie: Anne Frank Stichting Copyright: Rechthebbende(n) onvindbaar

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] In 1936, he was photographed there with some friends with whom he used to play soccer.[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. ^ AFS, Anne Frank Collectie (AFC), reg. code A_vPels_III_007: foto van Peter van Pels met zes vrienden.
  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.

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