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Nelly Voskuijl

Nelly Voskuijl was a sister of Bep Voskuijl.

Person

Fotograaf onbekend. Foto Stadsarchief Amsterdam, paspoortaanvragen 1940-45.
  • Hendrika Petronella Voskuijl
  • Born on: July 4, 1923
  • Born in: Amsterdam, Nederland

Nelly Voskuijl, 1942.

Fotograaf onbekend. Foto Stadsarchief Amsterdam, paspoortaanvragen 1940-45.

Status onduidelijk

Hendrika Petronella (Nelly) Voskuijl was a sister of Bep Voskuijl.[1] On Saturday evening, 1 November 1941, she was walking down Nieuwendijk with a German non-commissioned officer. Because she was a minor, a policeman took her to the Warmoesstraat police station. Her father Johan Voskuijl picked her up there the next morning.[2]

In December 1942, she applied for a passport, with the necessary parental consent because she was a minor.[3]

Nelly worked for some time at a German air force base near Laon in the north of France. Exact dates are not known, but she was there at least in the spring of 1944. She was there during heavy bombardments. She was back in Amsterdam at the beginning of May 1944.[4] In October 1945 she moved to Groningen.[5] She died in 2001.

In a 2015 biography of Bep Voskuijl, Joop van Wijk, Bep youngest son, and journalist Jeroen de Bruyn accused Nelly not only of collaboration with the Germans, but also of possibly having played a role in the alleged betrayal of the inhabitants of the Secret Annex.[1] They provided no conclusive evidence for both of these accusations.[6]

Source personal data.[5] Address:Lumeijstraat 18 II, Amsterdam.[5]

Footnotes

  1. a, b Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl & Jeroen De Bruyn, The last secret of the Secret Annex: the untold story of Anne Frank, her silent protector, and a family betrayal, New York, NY & London: Simon & Schuster, 2023. Originally published in Dutch in 2015.
  2. ^ Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Gemeentepolitie Amsterdam, inv. nr. 7009: Meldingsrapporten Bureau Warmoesstraat, 1 november 1941, 12.50 v.m. en 2 november 1941, 10.00 v.m.
  3. ^ SAA, Secretarie, afdeling Algemene Zaken, inv. nr. 7481: Paspoortaanvraag.
  4. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 6, 11, 19 and 25 May 1944, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  5. a, b, c SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart J.H. Voskuijl (1892).
  6. ^ Anne Frank Stichting: 'Verraadtheorie Voskuijl op aannames gebaseerd', Het Parool, 10 april 2015. For further reading, see: Rosemary Sullivan, The betrayal of Anne Frank: a cold case investigation, New York, NY: Harper, 2020, p. 170-180.