Hermann Van Pels Biography
Hermann van pels biography Continue In her diary, Anna gave the Van Pels family the pseudonym Van Daan. Hermann was born on March 31, 1898, in Osnabrueck, Germany, one of six siblings. Before the Secret App, Herman worked in his father's meat business, but it was sold at a large loss in 1933 after the imposition of laws by the Nazi party that forced people to boycott all Jewish businesses. Hermann and his family fled to Amsterdam in 1937, and Herman joined Otto Frank's company in 1938 as a herbal and sausage specialist. During the Secret appAfter it was not possible to obtain permission to emigrate to the United States to join Herman's sisters, the family joined the Franks in a secret app. Anna found the relationship between Herman and his wife both fascinating and infuriating, often writing as she would never understand adults. After a secret application, after a raid on the app, all the occupiers were taken to the Westerbork camp and then transferred to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Hermann was assigned to the kae arm, but after the injury he was transferred to another group, and then sent to the gas chamber. His 17-year-old son, Peter, watched as his father was led away with the group to see as soon as their clothes returned by truck. Ron was born in 1948 and has worked in theatre, film and television since the 1970s. Originally from South Shields, County Durham, Ron is a graduate of Rose Bruford College. He has starred in many dramas including Little Dorrit, Silent Witness, Burn Up and The Awakening of the Dead.
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