Bep Voskuijl

Bep Voskuijl, full name Elisabeth Voskuijl, later behaves. van Wijk, also known as Elly ( born July 5, 1919 in Amsterdam, † May 6, 1983 ibid ) was one of the helpers of the family Frank and van Pels and Fritz Pfeffer as this to save himself by " immersion " in front of the occupiers of the Netherlands attempted.

Other helpers were Johannes Kleiman, Miep Gies and Victor Kugler, Bep Voskuijl like all employees of the company and Opekta Pectacon were. Bep Voskuijl 1937 was set as an office assistant in the company Opekta. A little later, her father was employed as a warehouse manager.

After the arrest of the Frank family and Van Pels and Fritz Pfeffer and their deportation, she helped the famous diary of Anne Frank to preserve. The parties acted under extremely dangerous because they would have to deal with the threat of the death penalty of the occupying power.

With her husband Cor van Wijk Bep Voskuijl later had four children. She was honored in 1971 in remembrance of the Shoah, Yad Vashem, in Israel with the title " Righteous Among the Nations ".