"Johan Voskuijl"
https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/main-characters/johan-voskuijl/
And he still survived the war, but almost all of them died. The only one who survived being captured by the Nazis was Otto Frank.
He thought his teenage daughters would survive, but that did not happen. They got put on the very last train from Westerbork to Auschwitz.
He was in Auschwitz for 5 months and then it got liberated. It took so little time for everyone he lived with to die in the camps except him.
Actually, Peter might have survived if he had stayed back and tried to hide in Auschwitz in the barracks with Otto Frank but he didn't.
"Otto Frank was in the sick barracks at the time. He was unable to come and tried to persuade Peter to hide in the sick barracks, but Peter would not have it. He felt that he had a good chance of surviving the march because he was reasonably fit."
https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/main-characters/peter-van-pels/
"According to Otto Frank, Peter was still in relatively good condition and was himself convinced that he would make it.
Peter arrived in Mauthausen on 25 January 1945. On 29 January he was transported onwards to the Melk subcamp, where he was assigned to work as a forced labourer in ‘Project Quarz’ on the construction of an underground factory. The living and working conditions were inhuman and the death count high. On 11 April 1944 Peter van Pels was sent back to the Mauthausen infirmary, where sick prisoners lay without care, with hardly any clothes or food – in fact, a place to die. Peter van Pels died on 10 May 1945, five days after the liberation of the camp by American soldiers. He was only 18 years old."
https://raumdernamen.mauthausen-memorial.org/?id=4&p=137617&L=1
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