Write a detailed character sketch of Bep.
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Bep (Elisabeth) Voskuijl was born on July 5, 1919. She was often referred to by her nickname Elli and was the oldest in a family of eight children. The Voskuijl family was Nederlands Hervormd (Dutch Reformed) and the children attended Christian schools. According to her three-year-younger sister Willy van der Vennen-Voskuijl: “After finishing elementary school, Bep worked at different sorts of jobs. She worked as a servant, in a restaurant, and in workshop sewing. But she didn’t like any of these jobs, so she studied nights to better herself and to become a qualified office clerk.”
From the age of eighteen until the age of twenty-eight Bep works for Otto Frank’s firm. She hardly notices preparations being made to go into hiding. She sees that furniture is being piled up in the annex of the office building but does not know why, until Otto Frank tells her the reason sometime around the end of June 1942.