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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.
Jun 9, 2023 · Bep Voskuijl with her husband and eldest son in 1949. Photo: Courtesy of the van Wijk-Voskuijl family. We may earn a commission if you buy something from any affiliate links on our site....
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Wedding-day of Bep Voskuijl and Cor van Wijk Amsterdam May 15, 1946 Bep Voskuijl and Cor van Wijk married on 15 May 1946. Event. Show more Show less events Subjects (8) Arrest and betrayal Bep Voskuijl worked at various companies Contact with the outside world
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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...
During the war years, Bep Voskuijl was engaged to A.J. (Bertus) Hulsman (1918). She then met Cor van Wijk. They married on 15 May 1946 at 2:40pm in Amsterdam. The witnesses were Otto Frank and Cornelis Groen, the husband of Bep's younger sister Johanna Voskuijl. [1]
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 ...
Oct 28, 2002 · The civil marriage to Bep took place on 15 May 1946 at half past two in the afternoon. At first, the Van Wijk family had objections to the marriage because of their religious beliefs. The blessing in church took place on 26 May 1946 in the Martelaren van Gorcum Church on Linnaeushof.
