A woman teaches Corrie solitaire to pass time, using toilet paper as cards. Lying on this filthy straw, Corrie worries about the people in the hiding place, and her family members in prison. Thankfully, a kind young woman tells her companion to relinquish the only cot in the cell for Corrie to sleep on.

Some do not want her in the cell because of her illness, but a kind young woman tells Corrie to lie down on the filthy cot mattress.Ĭorrie begins to learn about prison life, which includes sanitary buckets, two meals of watery porridge and bread, her cellmate’s refusal to discuss personal lives and worst of all, prison boredom. Because prisoners from Haarlem are being separated, Corrie goes to a cell with several strangers. The cruel prison matron forces them to their cells, forbidding them to walk on the softer matting in the middle of the corridor. At the prison, they must face the wall before being separated by gender. Willem tells them what he can see of the dark city and then shares news that they are approaching Scheveningen, a federal penitentiary in a seaside town. Once again Corrie is singled out as the ringleader.įinally, they are marched out to an army truck, which bumps and jostles over the bombed streets. After a Jewish man in the room refuses to give up his possessions, soldiers beat him brutally and Corrie finds herself hating the man for being so helpless and so hurt. After endless hours of questioning about addresses, number of children and occupations, Corrie feels frustration and anxiety. However, Father tells him that tomorrow he will open his door to any man in need. The chief interrogator says that Father can be sent home if he promises not to make any more trouble. After the raid, the Gestapo agents take the Beje group to headquarters in The Hague, where names and addresses are taken again.

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