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The Last Secrets of Anne Frank Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl

The Last Secrets of Anne Frank By Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl

The Last Secrets of Anne Frank by Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl


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A riveting historical investigation and family memoir that reveals the untold story of Bep Voskuijl, the young Dutch woman who was Anne Franks closest confidante during the time she spent in the Secret Annex.

The Last Secrets of Anne Frank Summary

The Last Secrets of Anne Frank: The Heartbreaking Story of Her Silent Protector by Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl

DEVASTATINGDaily Mail
FASCINATINGDaily Telegraph
POIGNANT TLS

The extraordinary story of Bep Voskuijl, Anne Franks closest friend during the 761 days she spent in the Secret Annex.

Bep Voskuijl was just twenty-three when the Franks went into hiding and she risked her life to protect them, sourcing food and medicine under the noses of German soldiers and Dutch spies. But while Beps friendship with Anne blossomed, Beps sister Nelly whose name was scrubbed from Annes published diary was collaborating with the Nazis. Long after the war, haunted by the loss of Anne, Bep is unable to put to rest the horrifying suspicion that she had been betrayed by her own flesh and blood.

Written by Beps son, The Last Secret of the Secret Annex is a captivating story of heroism, betrayal and the devastating, destructive power of a secret.
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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 generationsDaily Telegraph

'Intimate, engrossing, and heartrendingBooklist

Gripping. I read it in one gulp as will you Kati Marton, author of The Chancellor

The Last Secrets of Anne Frank Reviews

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 *
'It took a network of courageous helpers to allow Anne Frank and her family to hide for as long as they did from the Nazis. It only took one person to betray them. This is a book that not only offers tantalizing new clues about their betrayer; it also sheds new light on the least known helper in a saga that encapsulates the tragedy of the Holocaust'
-- Andrew Nagorski, author of Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom

About 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.

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NGR9781398518247
9781398518247
1398518247
The Last Secrets of Anne Frank: The Heartbreaking Story of Her Silent Protector by Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl
New
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Simon & Schuster Ltd
2024-07-18
288
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