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Bep Voskuijl worked at various companies

Bep Voskuijl had many different jobs.

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After primary school, Bep Voskuijl had various jobs:

  • According to her younger sister, Willy van der Vennen-Voskijl, Bep Voskuijl worked in a sewing workshop and as a maid in a restaurant.[1]
  • Her son Ton van Wijk said that his mother also worked as a shopgirl at Ruperink's pâtisserie in Jan Evertsenstraat and as a helper at Ruttens cafeteria in Kalverstraat (a branch of hospitality chain Heck's).[2]
  • Her son Joop van Wijk said that his mother started working as a chambermaid in hotels and boarding houses and then she went to school in order to advance her career.[3]
  • On the family card of her father Johannes Voskuijl, Bep is registered as a cloak seamstress.[4] It is not known where and when this was.
  • In mid-1937, Bep was hired at Opekta, at that time located at Singel 400. She replaced Isa Cauvern, who was a stenographer. Victor Kugler was her supervisor. She got her instructions from him and from Johannes Kleiman and occasionally from Otto Frank. Like Miep Gies, Bep carried out work for Opekta and for Pectacon.[5]
  • Her identity card issued on 19 August 1941 reads: 'Office clerk (Pektine prod.)'.[6] After the arrest, she continued working in the office with Miep Gies until Kleiman's return.[7] In January 1947, Bep left Opekta.[8]
  • Bep did the bookkeeping for her husband, Cor van Wijk, who had an upholstery shop at home.[9]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Getuigenarchief, Voskuijl, Wilhelmina: Samenvatting van interview van Dineke Stam met Willy van der Vennen-Voskuijl, 8 april 1994.
  2. ^ Interview Jeroen de Bruin met Ton van Wijk, 7 april 2011, geciteerd in Jeroen de Bruyn & Joop van Wijk, Bep Voskijl, het zwijgen voorbij. Een biografie van de jongste helper van het Achterhuis, Amsterdam, Prometheus 2015.
  3. ^ Interview Teresien de Silva met Joop van Wijk, 12 augustus 2009.
  4. ^ Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Gezinskaarten (toegangsnummer 5421): Gezinskaart J.H.Voskuijl.
  5. ^ Verslag van een gesprek op 25 februari 1981 met Mevrouw E. van Wijl-Voskuijl door David Barnouw en Gerrold van der Stroom. NIOD Nederlands Instituut voor Oorlogs,- Holocaust- en Genocidetudies, Frank, Anne (toegang 212c), inv nr. 7c.
  6. ^ AFS, Anne Frank Collectie, reg. code A_Voskuijl_I_045: Persoonsbewijs (PB535901) van Elly (Elisabeth) Voskuijl.
  7. ^ Miep Gies & Alison Leslie Gold, Herinneringen aan Anne Frank. Het verhaal van Miep Gies, de steun en toeverlaat van de familie Frank in het Achterhuis, Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 1987, p. 199-203.  
  8. ^ Bep verliet Opekta ongeveer acht maanden na haar huwelijk met Cor van Wijk en ongeveer vier maanden voor de geboorte van hun oudste zoon Ton van Wijk.
  9. ^ AFS, Getuigenarchief, Wijk, Cor van: Aantekeningen gesprek Dineke Stam met Cor van Wijk.