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May 1, 2019 · Although Miep Gies is the best-remembered of the Dutch “helpers,” Voskuijl was the closest to Anne in age and temperament. Anne often wrote about “good-natured Bep” in her diary, including...
Bep Voskuijl died in Amsterdam on 6 May 1983, due to a traumatic aortic rupture. She was 63 years old. In an article in Dutch national newspaper De Telegraaf, Miep Gies was quoted, stating that "the special thing about Bep was that she was so humble. She was heroic without bravura, simply assumed that the hiders in the Annex must be helped.
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- Elli Vossen
- Secretary of Opekta
- Cornelis van Wijk (m. 1946)
Together with Miep and Jan Gies and Willem van Maaren, Bep went to take a look in the Secret Annex. Anne's diaries and notebooks were scattered across the floor. Together, they gathered the papers and Miep kept them in a drawer of her desk: the diary was saved.
Jan 11, 2010 · Miep Gies was an employee of Otto Frank and one of the helpers of the people in hiding in the Secret Annex. Read her biography here.
May 12, 2023 · Associate Editor, History. Soon after the SS arrested Anne Frank on August 4, 1944, Miep Gies —one of the helpers who’d hidden the young girl from the Nazis for the past two years—snuck back...
- Meilan Solly
When the eight hiders were finally arrested and taken away on August 4, 1944, along with their two helpers Kugler and Kleiman, Miep Gies was the only person that could keep the business running. She and Bep Voskuijl had not been arrested, and the office had not been cleared out by the Germans.
Miep Gies (left) and Bep Voskuijl in the front office, October 1945. Photo collection: Anne Frank Stichting, Amsterdam. On 4 August 1944, Anne Frank and the other people in hiding in the Secret Annex were discovered. Read more about the events on the day of their arrest.
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