van Wijk, Joop, 51, 99, 171–73, 175, 178–80, 197, 200, 273–74, 344n23, 344n36. See also Voskuijl, Bep （mother） Vellinga, Rinsophie, 109
Volksstimme, 194
von Schirach, Henriette and Baldur, 264
Voskuijl, Annie （sister）， 172
Voskuijl, Diny （sister）， 75, 172–74, 178, 344n26
Voskuijl, Elisabeth “Bep”： biography of, 99; death of, 289; discovery of Anne’s diary in Prinsengracht 263, 75; first investigation of raid （1947–1948） and, 164, 166; food, obtaining, 146; Lena Hartog and, 66, 205; hiders in Prinsengracht 263 assisted by, 37, 39, 51, 59, 61, 63, 66; on postwar agreement between Otto Frank and helpers, 200; postwar life of, 289; raid on Prinsengracht 263 and, 68–71; Silberbauer and, 194; sister Nelly and, 171, 180; son Joop van Wijk on, 171–72, 179; visiting Prinsengracht 263 after raid, 75. See also van Wijk, Joop （son） Voskuijl, Johannes （father）， 39, 54, 55, 63–64, 70, 171–76, 179, 180, 273
Voskuijl, Nelly （sister）， 99, 171–80, 273–74, 343–44n23
Voskuijl, Willy （sister）， 177, 178
Vo?te, Henri?tte “Hetty,” 34
Vrij Nederland, 156, 210
Het Vrije Volk, 195, 355–56n4
Vught （concentration camp）， 209, 210, 324
De Waarheid, 126
Waffen-SS, 45, 322, 324
Wall Street （film）， 19
Wannsee Conference, 324
warehouse employee identified as maker of phone call by Silberbauer, 196–97, 202–4
Warlovechild, 21
Weeling, Karel, 88–89
Wegman, Ben, 343–44n23
Wehrmacht （German Army）， 14, 33, 115, 123, 128, 143–46, 173, 230, 264, 272, 325
Weinrother （fiancée of son of A. Asscher）， 268
Weisz, Richard and Ruth, 208–9, 211–13, 214–15, 217, 274
Weisz-Neuman, Ruth, 217
West German Federal Intelligence Service （Bundesnachtrichtdienst; BND）， 194
Westerbork transit/internment camp, 21, 36, 72, 75–78, 85–86, 159, 186, 211–12, 214–15, 217, 220, 226, 227, 266–67, 269, 290, 325
Westerkerk church, Amsterdam, 48, 61–62, 134, 138, 287
Weteringschans prison, Amsterdam, 75, 145
Who Killed Anne Frank? （CBS TV documentary）， 279
Wiesel, Elie, Night, 9, 11–12
Wiesenthal, Simon, 8, 28, 190–96, 202, 239, 281–82, 283
Wiesinger, Josef, 193, 194
Wijsmuller-Meijer, Geertruida “Truus,” 294
Wilhelmina （Dutch ruler）， 36, 41
Wilhelmina Catharina School, Amsterdam, 293
Wilson-Granat, Cara, 242–44
Winter Aid Netherlands （Winterhulp Nederland）， 203
witness interviews, 101. See also specific persons by name Wolfswinkel, Gerrit, 200
Wolfswinkel, Rolf, 198–201
World War I, Otto Frank’s service in, 7, 29, 71
World War II: Amsterdam, shadow city of, 290–95; fate of Dutch Jews in, 4n, 17, 27, 32, 47, 85, 133, 148–49; German industrialists, profitability to, 19; Prinsengracht 263 occupants following news of, 4–5
xenophobia and racism, contemporary rise in, xiii
Xomnia, 97, 102, 131–32
Yad Vashem, Israel, 130, 142, 225, 289
yellow star, 156, 232
Zeller, Ron, 32–33
Zentralstelle für Jüdische Auswanderung （Central Agency for Jewish Emigration）， 44–45, 88, 148–49, 160, 186, 251, 252, 260, 266, 277, 325
Photo Section
Otto Frank （center） with the people who helped hide him and his family. Left to right: Miep Gies, Johannes Kleiman, Victor Kugler, and Bep Voskuijl. Courtesy of the Anne Frank House, Amsterdam
This photo of Anne was used on the cover of many editions of the diary, and was seen and read by millions of students all over the world. Courtesy of the Anne Frank House, Amsterdam
Otto Frank, before the war. Friends “smiled at his Prussian self-restraint.” May 1936, courtesy of the Anne Frank House, Amsterdam.
Born in Germany, Edith Frank married Otto in 1925. They were forced to flee with their two daughters, Anne and Margot, to Amsterdam in 1933. She died in Auschwitz of starvation. May 1935, courtesy of the Anne Frank House, Amsterdam
Margot Frank, older than Anne by three years, was called up for forced labor in July 1942. May 1942, courtesy of the Anne Frank House, Amsterdam
The Franks and friends on their way to the wedding of Jan and Miep Gies. Amsterdam, July 1941, copyright ? Granger
The elusive Karl Josef Silberbauer. He arrested the Franks and the others in the Annex and started them on their way to the concentration camps. He eventually became a police officer in Vienna. Private collection. Heritage Images/TopFoto
Ans van Dijk was a V-Frau （a collaborator who betrayed Jews in hiding）。 She was the only Dutch woman to be executed for her wartime activities. 1947, AFH/IISG, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam