Peter van Daan About Peter. In her diary, Anne gave the Van Pels family the pseudonym Van Daan. Peter was the only child of Auguste (pseudonym Petronella) and Hermann van Pels and was born on 8 ...

A writer who specializes in young adult novels has penned a racy fictional diary by Peter Van Pels, the boy who lived in the same building as Frank in Amsterdam while she was in hiding during the ...

In “The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank,” an ambitious novel about conflicted identities, Ellen Feldman imagines the adult life of Peter van Pels, the boy Anne Frank befriended while hiding from the ...

Like Anne Frank before her, Ellen Feldman fell in love with Peter van Pels, the tall, gawky, gentle boy whose family hid with the Franks from the Nazis in the attic quarters made famous by “T… ...

During her time in hiding in the Secret Annex, Anne Frank experienced her first kiss with Peter van Pels—a brief moment of intimacy amid the fear and uncertainty of war. This fleeting kiss ...

Peter van Pels and his family are locked away in there with the Franks, and Peter sees it all differently. He’s a boy, and for a boy it’s just not the same.

The boy who loved Anne Frank was named Peter van Pels. Peter was one of the eight people who survived for two years and 23 days in the "secret annexe" at 263 Prinsengracht in Amsterdam. In her ...

Feldman (Lucy) pens a deeply affecting, unsettling look into the soul of a man whose attempts to bury his past cannot prevent it from seeping into his present life.Anne Frank and Peter van Pels ...