The Hiding Place Final Review

What does Willem to do divert suspicion from his frequent trips to Haarlem?

He hosts a worship service every Wednesday morning

What does Corrie's nephew, Peter, do at the church sermon?

He plays the national anthem of Holland

What is Corrie able to sneak into her barracks at Ravensbruck?

Her Bible, sweater and vitamins

What important news does Corrie receive while in prison?

Her father died 10 days after his arrest

Where is the secret room constructed?

It is a wall behind Corrie's bedroom

What happens to the warning signal?

It is broken, but put back into the window

Why is Corrie looking forward to September 1?

It was just a date that she used to mark the 6th month mark because that's the average term for "ration card offenders"

Who are Katrien and Annaliese?

Jews hiding in Nollie's house

a punishment when you can only have one meal a day

Kalte Kost

Corrie's one time lover

Karel

Suddenly one day at Vught the prisoners are ordered to return to their barracks in the middle of the day. What happens?

Male prisoners are lined up and shot (700 died that day)

When do the vitamins finally run out?

Mien brings them more vitamins from hospital

What is the happy news that Corrie receives?

Nollie is out of jail

Cheerful and tells the truth at any cost

Nollie's personality

From whom does Corrie receive a package, and what is in it?

Nollie; cookies, vitamins, needles and thread, bright red towel, blue sweater

Where do the women stay the first two days?

Outside the Ravensbruck's barracks. They slept outside.

What is the result of the safety sign being in the window when Corrie is being arrested?

People come to the Beje and are arrested along with the ten Boom's

Peter is a music genius who can play the piano extremely well

Peter

Whom does Kik, Willem's son, take Corrie to meet one evening?

Pickwick, who had lots of people involved in the underground to save the Jews.

What does Willem need in order to place people in hiding and what does he suggest Corrie do to get them?

Ration cards; she find her own sources to get them

After four days of inhumane train travel, where are the women finally taken?

Ravensbruck

Who becomes a somewhat unlikely ally at the police station?

Rolf, who is a police officer

Where are the ten Booms transferred first?

Schevinigan

What is Corrie's dream that night?

She and her family were being taken far away in a wagon, and they were to never return

When Corrie goes to visit Betsie in the hospital, what route is she forced to take?

She crawls through a bathroom window at the hospital

How does Corrie get the ration cards?

She gets Fred Koornstra, head of the Food Office, to sneak them for her.

Betsie is eventually returned to the barracks and given a new work detail.What does she do?

She goes to the knitting brigade. She knots very well and is done with her quota before "lunch" each day.

What happens to Nollie?

She is arrested for hiding Jews because she tells the officers that Katrien and Anna are Jewish.

With the arrival of a new head matron, what changes were ordered for Corrie?

She is to have sheets; 1-2 showers a week

What does Corrie do that she fears may have angered the lieutenant?

She mentioned God; she implies that God loves everyone equally, even the feeble-minded

How does Corrie finally come to accept the humiliation of having to be naked in front of the soldiers?

She remembered Jesus was naked on the cross

Why does the lieutenant tell Corrie to walk slowly in Corridor F as she return to her cell?

She was headed towards Betsie's cell and would see her.

What happens that evening?

Soldiers come to the Beje to get Corrie, Father, Betsie, and the Jews

Diabetes

Tante Jan's death

During this period, what does the Beje become?

The Beje becomes an underground operation for lodging and/or placing Jews in safehouses.

What happens to the Jews?

The Germans don't find them; they cannot find the hiding place

Betsie learns the answer to one of Corrie's puzzles. What is it?

The guards don't want to be infected with the fleas in the barracks, so they don't come in

What important news does Betsie learn?

The man from Ermelo (Jans Vogel) was really a worker for the Gestapo, and lied about his wife and children being arrested to con the family out of money; they had been betrayed by the man who wanted the money

The prisoners begin hearing explosions that they hope might be the advancing Dutch brigade. What does the foreman, Moorman, tell them it probably is?

"Demolition work" (meant to keep forces away)

After the ten Booms are transferred to Gestapo headquarters in The Hague, a chief interrogator offers to let Corrie's father go if he does not cause any more trouble. What is her father's response?

"If I go home today, tomorrow I will open my door to anyone who knocks"

How does Holland hold out against Germany? How does Corrie know that her country is lost? What year is this?

- 5 days -the Queen had left -1940

How does Betsie view the guards? Why does Corrie wonder what kind of road her sister traveled?

- Betsie believes people who can be taught to love - because Betsie is such a whole- hearted person

What do the ten Booms finally begin to realize?

- Germans were persecuting the Jews in Haarlem

The prisoners are finally processed to be admitted to the camp. What is that process?

- give guards all belongings - strip every item of clothes - shower, then place on prison dress and shoes

What does a nurse manage to smuggle to Corrie? What is the direct result of Corrie's visit to the doctor's clinic?

- the 4 gospels, soap, and safety pins - solitary confinement

Two incidents puzzle Corrie deeply. What are they?

1. More and more people are attending her worship service, and no guard was there to stop them. 2. The vitamins were continuing to grow

What method is devised as a system to warn others that the house is safe to enter?

A sign was put into the window. If it was up, it was safe, if not, it wasn't.

A jew who doesn't look jewish at all and serves the ten booms

Annaliese

It is a disgusting room with fleas and the windows were awful and the beds were supposed to fit 4 or 5 but they put 8 on them

Barracks 28

It is a small house with part of it being the watch shop. The hiding place is in nollie and corrie's room

Beje

Betsie becomes seriously ill once again, and goes to the hospital under unusual circumstances,. What are they?

Betsie could not move her arms or legs, and the guard sent a stretcher for her.

Betsie and Corrie react quite differently to learning who their betrayer is. How do they differ?

Betsie is quite forgiving, not carrying a burden, and Corrie is quite angry, frustrated, hurt, etc.

What is Corrie able to determine as she walks slowly past Betsie's cell?

Betsie made her cell into little home- just like Betsie!

She is kind to others and is very close to God

Betsie's character

Betsie dies the next day in the hospital and is moved to the latrine where Corrie saw the bodies piled. When Corrie goes in to see her sister, what shocks her?

Betsie's face looked full and young and radiant!

The beautiful house and they would be free by new year and use a former concentration camp for refugees

Betsie's visions

How does the family receive accurate news reports?

By radio

Back in the barracks, what do Corrie and Betsie do?

Conduct their own worship service

Corrie woke up and everyone was going to the secret room and she was sick. Germans came and made her go downstairs with everyone (except for jews). They hurt everyone and soon they brought them to a train and took them to a prison

Corrie's arrest

Dutch Watchmaker

Corrie's occupation before the German occupation began in Holland

Betsie, Nollie, Willem Nollie's children(6) are Kik, Cocky, Peter Willem's children(4) are Bob, Christiaan,

Corrie's siblings and their children

What do the residents have to practice with Corrie?

Denying the fact that she's hiding jews

Every morning and evening Corrie will hit a buzzer and the jews will run up the stairs to the hiding place with all their belongings

Drills

Father dies on March 9, 1944, Betsie died on December16, 1944, and everyone else survived

Fate of Family

Father is a kind hearted man the that loves children and God

Father

Betsie was thankful for the fleas because the guards wouldn't come in the room so they did bible studies

Fleas

Where is the second place Corrie and Betsie are taken to after arrest?

Germany; Vught (concentration camp)

Why is Corrie called back to the lieutenant's office?

He arranges a reading of her father's will with the rest of her family present.

In February, a man comes to ask a favor of Corrie. What is it, and what is Corrie's reaction?

He asks for money from Corrie to go to the police station to see his wife, who was arrested for hiding Jews; Corrie is a hesitant, but gives him 600 guilders.

Why does Otto persecute Christoffels but show respect for Corrie's father?

He feels that he doesn't need to show respect to Christoffels, but needs to show respect to Corrie's father since he is his boss

The workers are supervised by a prisoner foreman who is sympathetic to the prisoner's plight. What does he do for Corrie?

He gives her a job assembling relay switches- and tells her to make them faulty because they will be used in war planes for the Germans

What news does the family receive over the radio?

There will not be war; Holland will remain neutral

What happens to all those arrested?

They are taken to a gymnasium in Haarlem to be processed.

What happens to Corrie and the other prisoners?

They are transported (evacuated because the prison was being bombed by the Germans)

What awakens the family that same night?

They hear bombs exploding

Why do Corrie and Betsie believe that they are imprisoned?

They were meant to see God through all the horrible things happening to them

During this time, Betsie has a vision of life after war. What is it, and what is unusual about it.

They were to have a large house with gardens and sophisticated features, Betsie is saying this like she actually sees the house

Why is Corrie becoming uneasy during their time of hiding Jews?

Underground becoming too large and it is harder and harder to keep everyone safe.

Where are Betsie and Corrie assigned to work?

in the Phillips factory to make radios (Corrie) and sewing prison uniforms (Betsie)