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Philosophy of life, Fritz Pfeffer

Fritz Pfeffer was professedly Jewish and very religious.

Subject

According to Otto Frank, Fritz Pfeffer was the only one of the people in the Secret Annex who was truly religious. He had been raised Orthodox[1] and said the Friday evening prayers when Shabbat was celebrated in the Secret Annex.[2] Fritz Pfeffer's son, Werner, described his father as very religious, but not orthodox. He did follow the Sabbath rules and had a mezuzah on the door. In her diary, Anne Frank makes no allusion to religiosity in Fritz Pfeffer. In her narrative Sunday, she writes that Pfeffer prayed for 15 minutes every Sunday.[3]

Before going into hiding, Pfeffer lived with the non-Jewish Charlotte Kaletta without being linked in an official marriage.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Anne Frank-Fonds, Bazel, Hacketts Korrespondenz 1954-1960, doos 51: Meyer Levin Div. (S. Mermin), Play, Bazel: Otto Frank aan Frances Goodrich en Albert Hackett, 6 februari 1954.
  2. ^ Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Anne Frank Collectie (AFC), Otto Frank Archief (OFA), reg. code OFA_211.20: Interview met Otto Frank, afgenomen door Arthur Unger (1978) (transcriptie p. 31); OFA_70: 'Bitte schreiben Sie mir etwas über Anne'.
  3. ^ Anne Frank, Tales and events from the Secret Annexe, "Sunday", 20 February 1944, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019. Mirjam Pressler also included this passage under 20 February 1944 in the revised trade edition of: Het Achterhuis. Dagboekbrieven 12 juni 1942 - 1 augustus 1944. Herz. en verm. dr., Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 1991.