Johannes Hendrik Voskuijl (Died 1945) was one of the people who helped to hide :Anne Frank and her family and friends. He is known as "Mr Vossen" in the earliest editions of Anne's posthumously published :diary, but all people in the diary have their real names restored in all versions printed since 1985.

Voskuijl and his wife had eight children, one of whom was Bep Voskuijl

Bep Voskuijl

Elisabeth "Bep" Voskuijl helped conceal Anne Frank and her family from Nazi persecution during the occupation of the Netherlands.Bep was born in :Amsterdam...

. He worked as the manager of the warehouses of the :Opekta company, administrated by :Otto Frank.

Helping the people to hide

In 1942, when Otto and his family and friends decided to go to hiding, Voskuijl and his daughter Bep were asked to help them. Voskuijl built the bookcase which covered the hiding place. In 1943, he was diagnosed with :cancer and retired from working at that time.

On August 4, 1944, the hiders and two of their helpers were arrested by the Nazis. Only Otto Frank, Jo Kleiman

Johannes Kleiman

Johannes Kleiman was one of the Dutch citizens who helped hide Anne Frank and her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. In the published version of Anne's diary, The Diary of a Young Girl, he is given the pseudonym Mr. Koophuis...

 and Victor Kugler

Victor Kugler

Victor Kugler was one of the people who helped hide Anne Frank and her family and friends during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. In Anne Frank's posthumously published diary, The Diary of a Young Girl, he was referred to under the name Mr...

ultimately survived.

Death

Johannes Voskuijl died in Amsterdam in late November 1945 of cancer.
Otto Frank attended his funeral on December 1st.