Peter Van Daan lived in the secret annex with everybody and was a key part of the annix. Everybody living in the secret annex was captured and sent to different camps on On 4 August 1944,Peter Van Daans real name is Peter Van Pel they changed is name for the the script. Peter Van Pels was born on November 8, 1926 in Osnabrück, Germany. He died May 5th 1945 he was 18 years old when he died, he died while on the death march. He went to school at Jewish Lyceum, he had no siblings.The rest of his family dies a well Hermann van Pels his dad could not do the work required in the camp,so is gassed in September 1944. Auguste van Pels his mom dies somewhere in Germany or Czechoslovakia, between April 9th and May 8th 1945. His dad died at 46 years old