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English 4

Mrs. Duffy

Written/Oral Memoir Assignment

1. Write a 15-20 sentence paragraph that summarizes the Memoir that you read. Include the title,
the author, time and place, main characters and the main plot.

2. Write 20 facts about your book – these should be just once sentence each.

Guidelines:
** Bring your Memoir to class
** Bring a HARD copy of the paragraph and facts to turn in
** Pay attention to grammar and spelling
** Your heading should be in MLA format
** Be prepared to share your paragraph and facts with the class
** If you borrowed a book from me, please be prepared to return it!!
summary:
The Hiding Place is written by Corrie Ten Boom, and tells of her story in World War 2. The first
few chapters of the book introduce Corrie and her family through a few stories from her
childhood years, thus introducing the character of her and her family as extraordinarily
Christian, community-minded people, who often open their home to those who need it. When
the war breaks out, and the Dutch surrendered to Nazi Germany, the German occupation
drastically changed life for their little family. After suffering through a very difficult few years in
occupation, Corrie's nephew played the Dutch national anthem in protest (it was illegal at the
time) and everything changed. They began harboring Jews in their home. Slowly, the Ten Boom
family, and their home the Beje became more and more integrated into the Dutch underground.
They created a secret room, and an alarm system in order to better hide the growing number of
Jews sheltering in the Beje. Eventually, despite all their preparations, the house was raided, and
their extra ration cards were found. Corrie, her father, and her sister were taken to prison, and
the Jews were stuck in the hidden room. Eventually, the Jews escaped, and luckily the Ten
Boom's were not convicted for harboring them, they only received the much lesser punishment
for ration card fraud. The story then shifts to a recounting of Corrie's experience in suffering
through prison and later concentration camps. This is also where the Christian themes of this
book come into the spotlight. Despite the remarkably adverse conditions her and her sister were
in, they constantly thank God for their little blessings. Among the few things that they were sent
in prison, a few bibles were smuggled to Corrie that she used to keep high spirits despite
everything, as well as to preach the word to their fellow prisoners. Unfortunately, the conditions
led to the death of her father and sister, yet Corrie Ten Boom was released in December 1944.
The book ends with her speaking of her plans to renovate a former concentration camp into a
home to help those who need it.

1. The book is 241 pages long


2. Most of the people in the book are dead now
3. There are thirty two mentions of the word "Jesus" in the book
4. The Ten Boom family worked as watchmakers
5. After the cerebral hemorrhage, one of the only three words her mom could say was Corrie's name
6. There are two accounts of visions coming true in the book
7. On the morning that the Beje was raided, 35 people were arrested
8. In the camp, Corrie hid her bible on a string around her neck, under her shirt
9. The first act of resistance to the occupation of the Ten Boom family was when they kept their radio
(which was illegal)
10. Her sentence was only supposed to last 6 months
11. Her sister prophesied that they would both be out of prison by the new year, which came true
(technically)
12. Despite being offered freedom, her dad said "If I go home today, tomorrow I will open my door again
to any man in need who knocks"
13. Her release was only due to a medical error, and only a week after that all women her age were sent
to the gas chambers
14. She went through the prisons and concentration camps with her sister, until Betsie passed away
15. The book is full of lessons from her siblings or parents that she relates to the reader
16. it is all written in the first person past tense
17. Despite her sister confessing to harboring a Jewish woman named Annaliese, Annaliese was free
again within a week
18. In the Beje, they did drills for when the Gestapo did find them
19. The "hospital" in the camp was just a place the Nazis put the prisoners as they waited for them to
die
20. Shortly after her miraculous release, Corrie once again began harboring people in the Beje and
working with the underground

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