Name: The Last Secret of the Secret Annex von Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl
SKU: 9781398518223
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The Last Secret of the Secret Annex Zusammenfassung

The Last Secret of the Secret Annex Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl

The extraordinary, never-before-told story of Bep Voskuijl, Anne Franks closest friend during the 761 days she spent in the Secret Annex.

Bep was just twenty-three when the Franks went into hiding and she risked her life to protect them, plunging into Amsterdams black market under the noses of German soldiers and Dutch spies to source food and medicine for the Annex. In those cramped quarters, Bep and Annes friendship blossomed. As this book reveals, while she was sharing meals with Anne Frank, Beps sister Nelly whose name was scrubbed from Annes published diary was collaborating with the Nazis.

Written by Beps own son, The Last Secret of the Secret Annex interweaves her story with Anne Franks and Nellys to show us the Secret Annex as weve never seen it before. We follow Bep after the war as she struggles to build a life in the shadow of her past, unable to get over losing Anne nor put to rest the horrifying suspicion that she had been betrayed by her own flesh and blood.

Captivating and unsettlingly suspenseful, The Last Secret of the Secret Annex is a portrait of ordinary families caught between the victims and persecutors, in which collaborators and resisters often lived under the same roof. With a moving mother-son relationship at its heart, it explores how historical trauma is inherited from one generation to the next, and how sometimes keeping a secret hurts far more than revealing a shameful truth.
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Fascinating . . . not only conveys the quiet heroism of what his mother contributed to Anne Franks story, but a sad playing-out of a familys dysfunction, of the pain of survival, of the ripples of trauma flowing into succeeding generations Daily Telegraph

'Devastating, compelling'Daily Mail

'Superbly well-written, intimate, engrossing, and heartrending'Booklist(Starred)

Poignant . . . devastating. It is for their own stories that these books should be read, not for the extraordinary fame of Anne FrankTLS

The Last Secret of the Secret Annex Bewertungen

Fascinating . . . not only conveys the quiet heroism of what his mother contributed to Anne Franks story, but a sad playing-out of a familys dysfunction, of the pain of survival, of the ripples of trauma flowing into succeeding generations * Daily Telegraph *
'Devastating, compelling' * Daily Mail *
This gripping account adds a missing human dimension to the story of the young girl hidden in an attic during the Nazi occupation of Hollandand those who helped and those who betrayed her. I read it in one gulpas will you -- Kati Marton, author of 'The Chancellor'
As much a work of painful family therapy as painstaking historical analysis . . . A riveting read -- Peter Hayes, author of 'Why? Explaining the Holocaust'
'A superbly well-written, intimate, engrossing, and heartrending reckoning with the endless damage done by genocide' * Booklist (Starred) *
An important contribution to the literature on Anne Frank * Kirkus *
For long, the story of Bep Voskuijl, one of Anne Franks courageous helpers, has been mostly kept in the dark. This captivating book tells her moving and tragic story, her wartime assistance in the Secret Annex, and the long shadows of the war on her life and her familys -- Dr Bart Wallet, professor of early modern and modern Jewish history at the University of Amsterdam
Part biography and part whodunit,The Last Secret of the Secret Annexis, above all, a bereaved sonscri de coeur, simultaneously mourning and celebrating the mother he lost even before she died

* Wall Street Journal *
This powerful story brings to life Beps heroism and illuminates generations of a Dutch family, its secrets, and the trauma the Nazi occupation bequeathed to the future -- Pamela S. Nadell, author of 'Americas Jewish Women'
Provides a poignant account of the poison left by Dutch collaboration . . . [and] the devastating effect that Beps lifelong secretiveness had on her family. It is for their own stories that these books should be read, not for the extraordinary fame of Anne Frank * TLS *

Über Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl

Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl is the third of Bep Voskuijl's four children. He was born in 1949 in Amsterdam. After a successful career as a video producer (creating corporate movies for major Dutch companies) and marketing manager (for newspapers such as NRC Handelsblad and Algemeen Dagblad), Joop retired in 2010 to pursue research and writing with the goal of telling his mother's story. He also volunteers as a guest lecturer, teaching Dutch schoolchildren and other groups about Anne Frank, the Holocaust and the resistance during World War II. JeroenDeBruyn wasborn in 1993 in Antwerp. At age fifteenthe same age as Anne when she died of typhus in theBergen-Belsen concentration campJeroenbegan doing original research on the Secret Annex. He got to know the Anne Frank House firsthand during an internship there in 2011. He went on to study journalism, subsequently contributing toprominent Flemish news magazines likeKnack and Joods Actueel, and working as a senior editor for the major Belgian newspaperGazet van Antwerpen.

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR013915484

ISBN 13

9781398518223

ISBN 10

1398518220

Titel

The Last Secret of the Secret Annex Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl

Autor

Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Simon & Schuster Ltd

Datum

2023-06-08

Anzahl der Seiten

288

Preise

N/A

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