How did the Frank family know the other people who were in hiding with them?
The Frank and Van Pels families knew each other from 1937 as Otto Frank and Mr Van Pels were in business together. Otto Frank had hired Mr Van Pels for his vast knowledge of spices used in the butcher’s trade. In Amsterdam, Fritz Pfeffer worked as a dentist, where he had a patient named Miep Gies. On November 16, 1942, thanks to Miep, fifty-three year old Fritz Pfeffer became the eighth person to move into hiding in the Secret Annexe.
