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Johannes Hendrik Voskuijl (15 January 1892 – 27 November 1945) was one of the people who helped to hide Anne Frank and the other people of the Secret Annex in Amsterdam. He was the father of helper Bep Voskuijl, who is known as "Elli Vossen" in the earliest editions of Het Achterhuis, known in English as The Diary of Anne Frank.
During the war years, Bep Voskuijl was engaged to A.J. (Bertus) Hulsman (1918). She then met Cor van Wijk. They married on 15 May 1946 at 2:40pm in Amsterdam. The witnesses were Otto Frank and Cornelis Groen, the husband of Bep's younger sister Johanna Voskuijl. [1] Among the guests were also Charlotte Kaletta, Johanna and Jopie Kleiman, Miep ...
Victor Kugler started working for Otto Frank in 1933. Otto had just started trading in pectin, a gelling agent for making jam. Victor kept track of the orders and explored options for increasing their sales. His colleague Miep Gies described him as ‘a husky, good-looking man, dark-haired and precise. He was always serious, never joked.’.
In mid-1937, Bep was hired at Opekta, at that time located at Singel 400. She replaced Isa Cauvern, who was a stenographer. Victor Kugler was her supervisor. She got her instructions from him and from Johannes Kleiman and occasionally from Otto Frank. Like Miep Gies, Bep carried out work for Opekta and for Pectacon.
On 3 June 1945, ten months after the people from the Secret Annex had been arrested, Otto Frank arrived back in Amsterdam. He went straight to the home of Jan and Miep Gies. To his great joy and relief, the helpers of the people hiding in the Secret Annex had all survived the war. Next. overview. Otto Frank (in the middle) with the helpers ...
In July 1945, after the sisters Janny and Lien Brilleslijper, who were with Anne and Margot Frank in Bergen-Belsen, confirmed the deaths of the Frank sisters, Miep Gies gave Otto Frank Anne's notebooks (including the red-and-white checkered diary) and a bundle of loose notes that she and Bep Voskuijl had saved in the hope of returning them to ...
Johannes Hendrik Voskuijl. Born on: Feb. 22, 1928. Born in: Amsterdam, Nederland. Died on: March 19, 1949. Died in: Adjibarang, Nederlands-Indië. Joop Voskuijl was a son of Johan Voskuijl and a brother of Bep. [1] He was a carpenter by trade. [2] He went to the Dutch East Indies as a soldier in the Royal Army and was killed there at the age of ...
