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Jun 9, 2023 · In an essay adapted from his recent book, “The Last Secret of the Secret Annex,” Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl recalls the long shadow of Anne Frank’s death on his mother, Bep—and Bep’s lasting ...
- ‘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...
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Married to: Cor van Wijk, 15 May 1946. Children: Between 1947 and 1960, Bep had three sons and a daughter. Died: 11 May 1983. Bep Voskuijl was the youngest of the helpers helping the people hiding in the Secret Annex. Anne considered her to be one of the ‘young people’ and they got along very well.
May 3, 2023 · May 3, 2023 | Online Programming. Date: Tuesday, May 23, 2023. Time: 2:00 – 3:00 PM EST. Register Here. Anne Frank and her family were taken into hiding by twenty-three-year-old Bep Voskuijl, at great risk to herself.
Apr 8, 2015 · The betrayal theory that Jeroen de Bruyn and Joop van Wijk put forward in their book is based on a number of assumptions and interpretations: Passport. According to the authors, Nelly Voskuijl acquired a German visa quickly and free of charge at the end of 1942, and with it she secretly fled her parents’ home.
Bep Voskuijl was an office worker at Opekta and one of the helpers of the people in hiding in the Secret Annex. Person. Elisabeth Voskuijl. Born on: July 5, 1919. Born in: Amsterdam, Nederland.
Oct 28, 2002 · Cor van Wijk was the husband of Bep Voskuijl. Person. Cor van Wijk, 1944. Fotograaf onbekend. Stadsarchief Amsterdam, paspoortaanvragen 1940-45. Publiek domein. Cor van Wijk was married to Bep Voskuijl. [1] His mother died when he was six years old. His father remarried two years later.
