CHARACTERS
The narrator and protagonist of the novel
Who is Corrie ten Boom?
The name of the ten Boom’s house
What is the Beje?
The group of people heavily persecuted during this war
Who are the Jews?
Corrie’s only brother
Who is Willem?
The man Corrie fell in love with
Who is Karel?
The name of Corrie ten Boom’s father
Who is Casper ten Boom?
The town where Corrie is born; where the Beje is
What is Haarlem?
The German dictator during WW II
Who is Adolf Hitler?
Corrie’s musically-talented favorite nephew
Who is Peter?
Corrie’s “friends” during solitary confinement
What are ants?
Who is Nollie?
The country where the story is set
What is Holland (the Netherlands)?
The German secret police
Who is the Gestapo?
Corrie’s aunt who is scared of death
Who is Tante Jans?
Where the secret room was located
What is Corrie’s bedroom?
Willem’s wife; a nurse
Who is Tine?
The capital of Holland (the Netherlands)
What is Amsterdam?
The group of countries made up of Britain, France, the US, and the Soviet Union
Who are the Allies?
The German watchmaker who is cruel to Christoffels
Who is Otto?
The number of Jews who were killed during WW II
What is 6 million?
A very Jewish looking guest of the Beje
Who is Eusie (Meyer Mossel)?
The internment camp that Corrie and Betsie go to before Ravensbruck
What is Vught?
The name of the Resistance movement against the Nazis
What is the Underground?
The man Corrie speaks to during her hearing at Scheveningen; curious about Christianity
Who is Lieutenant Rahms?
The Netherlands monetary unit
What is a guilder?