Peter Van Pels: The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank

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Peter Van Pels: The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank Imagine you were Anne Frank, living in the annex. Sharing living space, eating little food, and even little to no showering with other families. Peter is the boy who is in love with you. He's just a young boy with a short, hard life. “Peter is obsessed with Anne Frank.” (Downey) He lived years in torture and wrongful events his entire life. From experience living in tight quarters is hard. Peter makes it through most of his hard times with hope, love and strength.
Anne Frank’s Diary is greatly important for many reasons. The diary is the only proof of Peter living in the Annex for 2 years. (Downey) He was considered quiet and in love. (Downey) Anne adored him and wrote about Peter often. (Downey/ …show more content…

He went to school. It was a Hebrew school in Osnabruck. (Downey) Peter went to the Annex when he was at a tender age of 16. (Downey) Him and his family went there on July 13, 1942. (Downey) Peter had a hard life, but it all had to end somehow.
Concentration camps; “a place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities. Sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution. The term is most strongly associated with the several hundred camps established by the Nazis in Germany and occupied Europe in 1933–45. Among the most infamous being Dachau, Belsen, and Auschwitz.” (dictionary.com) Peter and part of his family were in the Mauthausen Concentration Camp. (Downey) Herman Van Pels, his father, died first in a gas chamber. (Downey) In 1945, at only 18 years old, Peter died, 3 days before liberation. (Downey) Torture, evilness, broken; his life ends.
Peter had a hard times his entire life. Some were living in the Annex, as well as going to a concentration camp. The Diary of Anne Frank is written about Peter. His life was hard, heading to the end of Peter’s life. After all that Peter Van Pels went through, he is still known as the boy who loved Anne Frank. He always will

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