12. Anne’s Father Was the Only Person from the Annex to Survive the Holocaust
Alongside the Frank family in the Annex was the van Pels family: Hermann and Auguste and their son Peter, as well as Miep Gies’ dentist, Fritz Pfeffer. Of the eight people who sheltered in the Annex for two years, Otto is the sole survivor. Edith died of starvation, while his two daughters died at Bergen-Belsen, presumably of Typhus. Fritz Pfeffer was reunited with Otto Frank at Auschwitz but died soon after of an intestinal infection. Hermann van Pels was sent to a gas chamber, while his wife and son died of illness.