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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.
- ‘Nelly Did It with Krauts’
- ‘Just Go to Your Jews!’
- ‘Out of Loyalty For My Mother’
- ‘The Biography Is My Mission’
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...
Written by the son of Bep Voskuijl and a young reporter fascinated with Anne Frank, this is the story of the least forthcoming employee of Otto Frank's pectin firm: her incredible sacrifice for the Frank family and the others in the secret annex, her terrible secret, and her rather sad married life.
Jun 13, 2023 · The Untold Story of Anne Frank and Bep Voskuijl Hosted By: Moment Magazine Anne Frank and her family spent 761 days in hiding with the help of Bep Voskuijl who became Anne’s protector and closest confidante.
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- June 13, 2023
Anne Frank, the untold story. : Joop van Wijk, Jeroen De Bruyn. Vior Webmedia, Sep 4, 2018 - History. A “never-before-told true story about Anne Frank” and a “carefully hidden truth” as...
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 confident in the Annex, bringing us closer to understanding one of the great secrets of World War II.
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