Christiaan Corrie's nephew was sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and did not return. The triangular "Alpina" sign barely seen through the curtains was a signal that it was safe to enter the ten Boom house. During practice drills, the illegal residents of the house would have to climb these steep stairs to Corrie's bedroom where a hiding place had been prepared.
The hiding place was entered through the back of Corrie's bedroom closet. The Blue Sweater Quotes. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance. The One Hundredth Birthday Party. However, Betsie gets there before her and answers the door to find a young boy delivering flowers Betsie and Corrie carry the flowers into the shop, where Father displays his wares and performs Her older siblings, Willem and Nollie, have married and left home, and Mama As Betsie brings in coffee and breakfast, Father carefully descends the stairs.
He prays over the meal Betsie reminisces that Mama could make every day into a special occasion. Since she was friends Betsie and Corrie are busy for the rest of the morning, finishing the cooking and greeting Full Table. Betsie scolds her for wearing torn stockings and rummages around for a more presentable outfit.
After breakfast Betsie and Nollie hurry out the door, but Corrie lingers until Mama gently tells her to The Watch Shop. A month later, Betsie gets a nasty cold. For the next twenty years Father, Corrie, and Betsie live in this comfortable pattern.
That night Corrie wakes up to the sound of explosions. She finds Betsie and they pray together for Holland and the Queen. Betsie even prays for the German She feels that they should get Unable to sleep one night, she goes downstairs to have a cup of tea with Betsie. After an hour of chatting, she returns upstairs. On her pillow is a large piece Father, Betsie , and Corrie begin to discuss what they can do to help Jewish friends.
Already Willem The Secret Room. Betsie , who visits often, is concerned that their carelessness endangers everyone. Meat is so rare by now that Betsie has to take what she can get for her ration coupons, and one day she The nine people settle into their routine as a household—a fairly happy one, thanks to Betsie.
She organizes activities to alleviate the tedium of confinement, and the group enjoys impromptu concerts, Storm Clouds Gather. When Otto bursts into the dining room, only Father and Betsie are sitting at the table. Corrie herself can barely believe that twelve people were gathered Corrie, Father, and Betsie stay up praying long after everyone has gone to sleep.
In spite of increasing danger, The Raid. Downstairs Father, Betsie , and Toos are sitting against the wall, along with three underground workers who had been Betsie reappears with a huge bruise in her cheek. As Corrie cries over her injuries, she Corrie is separated from Betsie and Nollie and put in a room with strangers. Because she is sick, they women Eventually, she finds that while Betsie is still in prison, Nollie, Toos, Peter, Pickwick, Willem, and everyone else from the raid The Lieutenant.
Stunned, Corrie walks into his office to be embraced by Willem, Nollie, and Betsie for the first time in months. Willem says that Kik has been arrested and deported Betsie and Corrie fall onto a hard bench and fall asleep together. The ten Boom family is arrested and transported out of Haarlem with no idea where they are going. At first, Corrie shares a cell with four other women.
However, two weeks later Corrie falls ill and is placed in solitary confinement. Corrie learns that Betsie is in a cell nearby. Nollie, Peter, and Willem are soon released, but they hear no news of Father. At this gathering, Nollie passes a tiny Bible in a pouch to Corrie, something Corrie will wear around her neck until her release. The war grinds on.
When the prison is evacuated, Corrie and Betsie reunite. They are transferred to Vught, a camp for political prisoners. At the camp, Corrie works in the Phillips factory making radios, and she welcomes the company of others. A humane foreman allows the workers to sing and play games during their eleven-hour shifts. As the Germans begin to lose the war, the prisoners are marched out of camp and packed onto freight cars to be shipped to Ravensbruck extermination camp in a hellish four-day ordeal.
Corrie recounts her time in Ravensbruck. There, the prisoners live in a lice-infected tent, and Betsie falls ill. Corrie and Betsie manage to hide the blue sweater, the Bible, and some vitamins, but they are stripped of everything except thin prison dresses. At this time, Corrie and Betsie experience unspeakable cruelty and mistreatment yet continue to feel strengthened in their faith in God. As winter comes, 1, women move to wooden platforms in a barracks that were built to house only
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