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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. In 1937, Bep started working for Otto ...
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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...
Serbian. Ukrainian. v. t. e. Elisabeth " Bep " Voskuijl ( Dutch pronunciation: [eːˈlisaːbɛd bɛp ˈfɔskœyl]; [a] 5 July 1919 – 6 May 1983) was a resident of Amsterdam who helped conceal Anne Frank and her family from Nazi persecution during the occupation of the Netherlands.
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- Elli Vossen
- Secretary of Opekta
- Cornelis van Wijk (m. 1946)
Status onduidelijk. Elisabeth (Bep) Voskuijl was born on 5 July 1919 in Amsterdam. [1] She is the eldest child of Johannes Hendrik Voskuijl and Christina Sodenkamp. After her, seven more children were born in the family: Johanna Christina, Wilhelmina Hendrika, Hendrika Petronella, Cornelia Margaretha, Johannes Hendrik, Gerda and Dina. [2]
Jun 13, 2023 · Anne Frank and her family spent 761 days in hiding with the help of Bep Voskuijl who became Anne’s protector and closest confidante. Join Bep’s son Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl and journalist Jeroen De Bruyn, authors of the new book The Last Secret Of The Secret Annex, for a conversation with journalist Kati Marton, author of The Chancellor, about Bep’s relationship with the Franks, the burden ...
May 3, 2023 · Date: Tuesday, May 23, 2023 Time: 2:00 – 3:00 PM EST Anne Frank and her family were taken into hiding by twenty-three-year-old Bep Voskuijl, at great risk to herself. While Bep plunged into Amsterdam’s black market to source food and medicine for the family, her friendship with Anne bloomed through deep conversations and shared youth. […]
