How Did Hermann Van Pels Die?
Murdered in the Gas Chambers When He Wounded His Hand, He Had to Stay Behind in the Barracks. After the War, Fellow Prisoners Declared That the Guards Had Sent...
Where did Hermann van Pels die?
Edith Frank died of starvation at Auschwitz in January 1945. Hermann van Pels died in the gas chambers at Auschwitz soon after his arrival there in 1944; his wife is believed to have likely died at the Theresienstadt concentration camp in what is now the Czech Republic in the spring of 1945.
Who were Auguste van Pels Hermann?
Auguste van Pels (29 September 1900 - April 1945) was a German-Jew. She, her husband Hermann, and their son Peter fled Germany to the Netherlands in 1937. They joined Anne Frank's family in hiding from 1942 to 1944, when they were betrayed.