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May 1, 2019 · More than three decades after Elisabeth “Bep” Voskuijl’s death, her son co-authored a biography of the least-known among the Dutch resisters who hid Anne Frank and other Jews during the...
Jun 24, 2024 · Anne's diaries and letters had been rescued from their ransacked hiding place by his friends Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl, who were able to give them to him on his return.
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Apr 9, 2015 · One of the enduring mysteries of the second World War, the identity of the person who betrayed 15-year-old diarist Anne Frank and her family to the Nazis, has apparently been solved – by a...
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.
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- June 13, 2023
Later research has alternatively suggested that they may have died in February or early March. Otto, the only Holocaust survivor in the Frank family, returned to Amsterdam after World War II to find that Anne's diary had been saved by his female secretaries, Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl.
As the war dragged on and life in hiding became increasingly isolating, Anne’s diary became her refuge. What began as practice in self-reflection became, in Eleanor Roosevelt’s words, a “poignantly clear” illustration of “the ultimate shining nobility” of the human spirit.
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Johannes Hendrik Voskuijl (15 January 1892 – 27 November 1945) was one of the people who helped to hide Anne Frank and the other people of the Secret Annex in Amsterdam. He was the father of helper Bep Voskuijl, who is known as "Elli Vossen" in the earliest editions of Het Achterhuis, known in English as The Diary of Anne Frank.
