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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 ...
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Apr 8, 2015 · In the book Bep Voskuijl, het zwijgen voorbij (‘Bep Voskuijl, Beyond the Silence’) by Jeroen de Bruyn and Joop van Wijk - the youngest son of Bep Voskuijl - Nelly Voskuijl is put forward as the possible betrayer of the eight people in hiding in the ‘secret annexe’ in Amsterdam.
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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...
May 16, 2023 · This book is fantastic. It's also incredibly sad. Written by the son of Bep Voskuijl and a young reporter fascinated with Anne Frank, this is the story of the least forthcoming employee of Otto Frank's pectin firm: her incredible sacrifice for the Frank family and the others in the secret annex, her terrible secret, and her rather sad married life.
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Jun 9, 2023 · When I was growing up, Anne Frank was world-famous, but my mother was in hiding. Her name was Bep Voskuijl. She had been Otto Frank’s typist, the youngest of the four Dutch people who risked ...
Apr 9, 2015 · In a book published on Wednesday about Dutch resistance heroine Elizabeth “Bep” Voskuijl, her son, Joop van Wijk, reveals new evidence that his aunt, Nelly Voskuijl, was a Nazi collaborator ...
May 8, 2023 · The book, a collaboration between journalist Jeroen De Bruyn and Bep's son Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl, examines Bep's role in supplying the Frank family with food and comfort while keeping her ...
