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Johan Voskuijl was the father of Bep Voskuijl and the builder of the revolving bookcase hiding the entrance to the Secret Annex. Read his biography here.
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Johan Voskuijl, Bep's father, belonged to the Reformed...
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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...
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Jun 9, 2023 · My Mother, Who Hid Anne Frank, Never Could Escape the Secret Annex. By Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl. June 9, 2023. Bep Voskuijl with her husband and eldest son in 1949. Photo: Courtesy of the...
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.
