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Bep Voskuijl with her family, 1960. Photo collection: Anne Frank Stichting, Amsterdam. After the war, Bep struggled with all the attention due to her role in Anne Frank's life, preferring to stay in the background. An interview she gave in 1960 brought on ‘a nervous breakdown and a severe headache.
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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...
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...
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May 12, 2023 · “Bep [Voskuijl] took care of bread and milk,” said Gies in a 1992 interview. “Kugler and [Johannes] Kleiman kept the business going and brought books and magazines along with them for the ...
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Jun 13, 2023 · 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 of keeping their secret and other previously untold stories.
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May 16, 2023 · In the new book “The Last Secret of the Secret Annex”, Bep’s son Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl and Jeroen De Bruyn intertwine Bep and Nelly’s story with Anne’s iconic narrative. They reveal deeply held family secrets and provide a powerful understanding of how historical trauma is inherited from one generation to the next.
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.
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