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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.
- Elisabeth Voskuijl
Status onduidelijk. Elisabeth (Bep) Voskuijl was born on 5...
- Johan Voskuijl
Johan Voskuijl was the father of Bep Voskuijl and the...
- Elisabeth Voskuijl
- ‘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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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 ...
The discovery of the diary. The day after the arrest of the people in hiding, Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl walked through the rooms in the Secret Annex. They saw Anne's diaries lying around and took them to keep for her. Event.
