The people from the Secret Annex in Auschwitz
After their arrival on the platform in Auschwitz-Birkenau, the people from the Secret Annex were selected for forced labour, registered, and numbered. The women stayed together at the women’s camp in Birkenau. The men went on foot to Auschwitz I, another camp 3.5 kilometres away. One month later, Hermann van Pels was murdered in the gas chamber.