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Bep Voskuijl was an employee of Otto Frank and one of the helpers of the people in hiding in the Secret Annex. Read her biography here.
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Johan Voskuijl was the father of Bep Voskuijl and the...
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Bep Voskuijl was only 18 when she started working for the spice and jam company owned by Otto Frank. Within five years, she was “illegally” buying bread and milk for her Jewish friends in hiding and — just as important — giving them her sought-after company. Among other activities, the Frank sisters took correspondence courses in Voskuijl’s name, a...
Even during the early days of the war, the Voskuijl family faced trouble with Nelly. Not only was she carousing with German soldiers, but Nelly’s rowdy behavior earned her a stint in police custody. Later, when father Johan Voskuijl and sister Bep were involved in hiding Jews on the Prinsengracht, Nelly was working for the Nazis across town. In her...
At the time of Bep Voskuijl’s death in 1983, she was the least known of the four Dutch resisters who helped hide Anne Frank. After discovering some of the family’s long-held secrets, Van Wijk now believes there is an unsettling reason behind his mother’s relative “anonymity” among the helpers. In 1963, the SS officer who conducted the annex raid to...
In Joop van Wijk’s psychological “diagnosis” of his late mother Bep Voskuijl, she spent her post-war life “being her own therapist” in a “kind of conversation with her alter ego. But soon, it proved she was unable to resolve things that way.” One day during his youth, Van Wijk heard his mother sobbing in the bathroom. He found Voskuijl “in a desper...
May 16, 2023 · 4.24. 1,025 ratings163 reviews. A riveting historical investigation and family memoir that intertwines the iconic narrative of Anne Frank with the untold story of Bep Voskuijl, her protector and closest confidante in the Annex, bringing us closer to understanding one of the great secrets of World War II. Anne Frank’s life has been studied by ...
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Jun 13, 2023 · Anne Frank and her family spent 761 days in hiding with the help of Bep Voskuijl who became Anne’s protector ...
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- June 13, 2023
Belgian journalist Jeroen De Bruyn and Bep's son Joop van Wijk dove into her past and reconstructed her tragic, but fascinating life. Bep is 23 years old when, in 1942, she is let in...
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