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Leisure activities, Auguste van Pels

Auguste van Pels was a good cook and enjoyed reading biographies.

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Not much is known about Auguste van Pels-Röttgen's hobbies and leisure activities. Anne Frank's diary does show that Auguste van Pels could cook well.[1] Miep Gies also said something about this. According to her, Auguste van Pels was very neat, a first-class housewife and a good cook.[2] Auguste usually made the shopping lists because she was the one who cooked.[3]

Anne mentions in her diary that Auguste learned English in written courses and that she enjoyed reading biographies and also some novels.[4]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version B, 10 December 1942 and 14 March 1944, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  2. ^ Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Getuigenarchief, Gies, Miep: Interview met Miep Gies, 1992-04.
  3. ^ AFS, Getuigenarchief, Gies, Miep: Interview met Miep Gies, 1992-05.
  4. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 16-19 May 1944, in: The Collected Works,