The Hiding Place!

they invite him to stay with them and they have Willem sneak him out and away to safety

How are the ten Booms able to help their Jewish neighbor, Mr. Weil?

they would act as if they were talking to a customer, when they were really looking for a hiding place for someone

How do people communicate information over the phone?

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 the money

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

he gives her a job assembling relay switches

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

Hide them upstairs in a bedroom

What do the ten Booms do with visiting Jews needing protection?

Germans were persecuting the Jews in Haarlem

What do the ten Booms finally begin to realize?

she mentioned God; she implies that God loves everyone equally

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

embroiders pajamas from thread of towel

What does Corrie do to occupy her time in Schevenigan?

he played the national anthem on the organ

What does Corries nephew, Peter, do after the church sermon?

he hosts a worship service every Wednesday morning at the Beje

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

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

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

she has a stroke

What happens to Mama?

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

What happens to the Jews that are hiding in the Beje?

got through with Bible, sweater and vitamins

What is Corrie able to do at the physical inspection at Ravensbruck?

not awful; bearable

What is life like at the Beje during the German occupation?

- it has wilted flowers in the front of it - it looks like the most cheerful of all the huts

What is unusual about the 4th hut outside Schevenigan, and why do you suppose she wants to be taken to that one?

love

What lesson does Corrie learn from her mother?

Annaliese is free right

What message does Nollie deliver to Corrie from the prison? Is she right or wrong?

a house search for working age men (lightning search)

What was a razzia?

Otto, a former employee of the Beje

Who is the unexpected visitor to the Beje one evening?

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

Why do Corrie and Betsie believe that they are imporisoned?

underground becoming too large

Why is Corrie becoming uneasy?

the hospital- she is so sick

After to weeks in Schevenigan, where is Corrie taken, and why?

barely; she is able to say little

Does Mama recover from her stroke?

an underground operation

During this period, what does the Beje become?

undergroup system to save Jews

What is gradually developing at the Beje?

Mama sings the words to the whole song at Nollie's Wedding

What unusual occurrence takes place during the wedding service?

"the Bulldog" without his bulldogs

What unusual sight do Corrie and her father see after they help Mr. Weil get out of Haarlem?

she crawls through a bathroom window at the hospital

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

Germany; Vught (concentration camp)

Where do the prisoners fear they will be taken? To where are they transported?

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

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

a watch maker

After studying with her father and taking classes, what does Corrie become?

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

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 responds?

Ravensbruck

After their time in Vught, the women are evacuated again. Where are they going?

"Give thanks in all circumstances"

Against all the horrors of their surroundings, what does Betsie say the answer is?

Conduct their own worship service

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

She prays to God for being sent to that room.

Because the conditions here are horrible with the women exhausted, ill and nearly starving, quarrels errupt constantly, What is Betsie's solution?

They were to have a camp for the Germans who needed to learn to love. There would be window boxes and the bunks would be painted green.

Before she dies, Betsie tells Corrie of her other visions. What are they?

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

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

Betsie could not move her arms or legs, and the guard sent a stretcher into the barracks to get her.

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

Betsie's face and body looked completely radiant, and not starved

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

she goes to the knitting brigade.

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

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

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

Corrie ends up being rejected from the transports and is assigned to knitting

By a series of "coincidences", Corrie finds herself in an entirely new situation in Ravensbruck. What is she doing?

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

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

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

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

- people who can be taught to love - because Corrie's such a whole- hearted person

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

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

How does Corrie get ration cards?

while guards are away, the prisoners pass info between cells

How does Corrie learn the fate of her family in Schevinigan?

Nollie writes her a letter; all her Jews are safe

How does Corrie receive news from home while in Schevenigan and what is the news?

she tries to distract the doctor into letting her see Nollie

How does Corrie try to free Nollie?

- 5 days -the Queen had left -1940

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

by radio

How does the family receive accurate news reports?

push a heavy cart to a rail road where they unloaded large metal plates and wheeled them to another gate

What are Corrie and Betsie forced to do in their work detail at Ravensbruck?

bombs

What awakens the family the night of the radio broadcast promising peace in Holland?

- words of Bible -he hates his job, but cannot leave because of his fear of the Nazi's

What do Corrie and the lieutenant discuss during Corrie's second interrogation? What does the lieutenant mean when he says he is in a prison stronger than this one?

denying the fact that she's hiding Jews

What do the residents, Kik, and Rolf drill Corrie on?

Jews had to find new homes

What does Corrie learn during her brief family reunion at Schevenigan?

ration cards; she find her own sources to get them

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

headquarters of a raid on ration cards

What does the lieutenant think has been occurring at the Beje?

a soldier comes to the Beje

What happens the evening the "fake Jew" comes to the Beje?

She's admitted to hospital

What happens to Betsie when she is unable to work while at Ravensbruck?

They are transported evacuated

What happens to Corrie and the other prisoners from Schevenigan?

she is arrested for hiding Jews

What happens to Nollie?

He is arrested.

What happens to Peter as punishment for playing the forbidden song?

they are taken to a gymnasium in Haarlem

What happens to all those arrested from the Beje?

Soldiers ask where the family is, the family told the soldiers and laughed, and then the soldiers left.

What happens when soldiers come to Nollie's and Flip's house?

Mr. de Vries (Bulldog) kills them because he figures once he is taken, no one will be there to take care of them.

What has happened to Mr. de Vries's bulldogs and why?

the man from Ermelo 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

What important news does Betsie learn while sewing in Vught?

Betsie made cell into little home

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

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

What is Corrie's dream the night of the radio broadcast promising peace in Holland?

Mr. Smit came to construct the secret room

What is a direct result of the meeting at Pickwick's house?

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

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

there will not be war; Holland will remain neutral

What news does the family receive over the radio?

her father died 10 days after arrest

What other news does Corrie receive from home while in Schevenigan?

they think they will go home; back to main camp at Vught

When Betsie and Corrie are handed typewritten forms and are told to report to the administration, what do they believe? Where do they end up?

No, it is the "gift from God" to Corrie and Betsie, just before she dies

When Mama sings at Nollie's wedding, is this the beginning of her recovery?

Mien brings them more vitamins from hospital

When do the vitamins finally run out?

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

Where are Betsie and Corrie assigned to work while in Vught?

Schevenigan, 5 women

Where are the ten Booms transferred (after the gymnasium in Haarlem)? How many other people are left in the jail cell with Corrie?

outside the Ravensbruck's baracks. They slept outside.

Where do the women stay the first two days in Ravensbruck?

a wall behind Corrie's bedroom

Where is the secret room constructed?

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

While at Ravensbruck, two incidents puzzle Corrie deeply. What are they?

Jews hiding in Nollie's house

Who are Katrien and Annaliese?

Nollie

Who gets married after Willem in the ten Boom family?

Harry de Vries, a Jew who the ten Booms always see on their daily walk

Who is "the bulldog"?

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.

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

she was headed towards Betsie's cell

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

The reading of her father's will is required. She sees the rest of her family: Willem and Nollie

Why is Corrie called back to the lieutenant's office? Whom does she see there?

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

Why is Corrie looking forward to September 1?

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

With the arrival of a new head matron in Schevenigan, what changes were changed for Corrie?