Saturday, June 19, 2010
Corrie Ten Boom House & Anne Frank House
The side door of the Warehouse where the Frank family lived. They lived in the top floors above the offices and work area ... You are not allowed to photograph in the museum...
This is the linen shelf in Corrie Ten Boom's bedroom. The bottom shelf area is where the people would crawl through and hide in the space ...
Here are two happy stow-a-ways, and one on the outside ... I don't know HOW they fit 6 people in there!!
This is the inside of the cupboard. After the people got into the hiding place, they would lower the door which was weighted with these clock weights....
This is the outside of the Corrie Ten Boom house. The window that says "sale" on it is the front of the building, where the clock repair shop had been ...
A year or two ago, I read "The Hiding Place" by Corrie Ten Boom and "The Diary of Anne Frank". Both places are in Amsterdam, and I really wanted to go. Shelby read the play of Anne Frank (so did Devin when he was in 8th grade). So, the first weekend in May we headed to Amsterdam. We were able to visit both places ...
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