The Hiding Place

At the end of February 1944, German authorities raid the Beje. Corrie, lying ill in her room with influenza, sees all the residents rush past her bed and hide themselves away in the secret room. Just moments later, an officer drags Corrie from her bed, convinced that she is the ringleader of the Dutch underground. The raiding officers never find the people hidden in the secret room, but they use the Beje as a trap to ensnare other underground workers throughout the day. Messengers and helpers continue to come by, unaware that the house is now full of German guards. Corrie’s coded answer to an underground contact who calls on the phone conveys the nature of the situation and stops the flow of underground workers.

Corrie, Betsie, Father, and the other underground workers at the Beje are arrested and led away to a processing center. The German guards, convinced there must still be Jewish refugees hiding somewhere in the Beje, set up a rotation to watch the house, and Corrie worries that her guests will be discovered. In the midst of these events, she realizes that the vision she had had long ago, at the beginning of the invasion, was pointing to this moment, when she and all her family were taken forcefully from their home.