Behind The Bedroom Wall

CHAPTER 3
Korinna was talking to Rita and Eva about what Rita heard from her father.  (Her father works to find/capture "Jew-Lovers")  Rita said that she was listening on her dad and another important guy about how they got information from the Jew-lovers, but apparently it was top secret, and almost nobody knew it, so it wasn't mentioned in such a place. (The kitchen)
Korinna told Eva that Rita thought Eva was having un-German thoughts, and that she might turn her in, and Eva then came out and said that she WAS starting to question Hitler/Germany.


CHAPTER 4
Korinna woke up and she wasn't able to find her cat.  when she came out to speak with her mother, she found out that her aunt was in for dinner...also that she'd slept all day.  It was 5:00 and she missed dinner with her aunt.  Korinna went down stairs where her mother said she had a plate fixed for her, where she finally found her cat.  Later, Korinna's mother came in and told Korinna that her father was working late at a meeting.  Korinna jumped up and listened to a radio broadcast of Adolf, and afterwords her mother was questioning him.  She said that you shouldn't follow somebody blindly, and that his speeches were all the same, ECT.  Korinna couldn't believe what she was hearing!   They heard a loud crash from upstairs but it turns out it was just the cat playing with a statue.  While Korinna and her mother were talking about it, her father came.  They both questioned why he came through the back door, and he said it was more convenient, but both Korinna AND her mother found it more INconvinient.  Korinna started asking many questions to find out what happened to her teacher, and her father only said that her teacher's father was arrested, and she simply wanted to go with him, but he wouldn't say why.  Then Korinna asked why her teacher's father was arrested, and again, he didn't know.  Korinna decided to go back downstairs and do her homework. =\  She heard mouse noises coming from behind her dresser, and was going to move the dresser to try scaring the mice away, but what she found was a large hole, and she could smell unwashed bodies and see shining eyes.


CHAPTER 5
There were Jews behind Korinna's bedroom walls.  The mice that she'd been hearing for a LONG time weren't mice, they were Jews that her parents were harboring.  Now that Korinna knew about it, and wasn't too fond of the idea of Jews behind her walls, her parents had to move them.  But not now, it was too risky, as police had been doing house-checks for Jew-lovers lately and have been arresting many people.


CHAPTER 6
Korinna was having trouble sleeping since she now knew what lay beyond her bedroom's walls, but she surprisingly HAD been sleeping.  When Korinna's mother came into her room late one night, she pretended to sleep while listening to her mother talking to the Jews, and became very angry at her parents.  When she woke up the next day, her mother let her stay home from school, and her father/mother were asking her to do things to help the Jews, which she 100% HATED.  When Korinna was finished helping her parents with the Jew Harboring, she was thanked.  This made her a little bit more angry, because not only was she guilty of being un-German, but now she was being THANKED for it.


CHAPTERS 7-9
Korinna has been going to school, but not her club in the afternoon, her excuse being she's sick, and she feels worst later in the day.  She's sitting at her desk doing school-work, when she decides she has to go to her afternoon club soon, so she writes in her journal for it.  The last thing she wrote was "My parents are the enemy."  The next day, after school, Rita decided to drop by before their club meeting.  While she was over, they tried to find the cat, which worried Korinna that Rita would find the Jews, but she didn't; and Rita read Korinna's journal...Korinna made an excuse for the line "My parents are the enemy" by saying it didn't mean anything, she was just mad at her mother one day.  Korinna started starring at the wardrobe, (Behind which, the Jews hid) then said she had to go, and left.
Korinna began to talking to one of the Jews behind the wardrobe, and she couldn't figure out why, because she had been telling herself that Jews are the enemy, and she isn't a traitor...


CHAPTER 10
Korinna was having a dream about her hitting Rachel, one of the Jews her parents were harboring, with a glass ball and making her cry.  When she woke up, her parents were standing there, telling her to act like she was asleep.  she did it without questioning, and then the door busted down and men were shouting that they are checking he house for Jews.  Korinna stayed "asleep" until she heard a loud thump upstairs and her dad shouting something.  When she went up, she saw her dad on his back with blood on his face...along with Rita's brother standing beside him.  Korinna's father said he was punched because he tried to stop a man from going through a drawer, and he overreacted.
Korinna lay on her bed, wondering weather she should trust the Jews, her enemy, or Rita, her best friend...


CHAPTER 11
Korinna and Rita talk at their next meeting, and tell each other that they both kind of feel sorry for the Jews.  Rita said she just acts like she hates them so people will think she does.  Korinna was growing suspicious of whether or not this was a trap or Rita was telling the truth.  When Korinna got home, her mtoher told her that Rachel's mother had passed away from pneumonia.  Korinna went downstairs to try to speak with Rachel.
At first, Rachel didn't want to talk, she even said she never wants to draw again, (She LOVES to draw.) but after Korinna convinced her that Ruth (Rachel's mother) will live on in everybody's heart as long as they think about her, care about, and love her,  Rachel changed her mind.  She was drawing a picture of Ruth now. :)


CHAPTERS 12/13
Later on in the night, the Jews' father had come to talk to them, and Bernd, Korinna's father, said that they were going to be moved to a new location soon.  Korinna woke up the next day, and on her way to school, Rita wasn't waiting for her so they could go together, like she usually does.  Eva wouldn't even talk to her in class.  When she was at her after-school meeting, Rita and Eva were still acting strange, and Eva still wouldn't even talk to her.  Korinna left as soon as the meeting was over, trying not to be further embarrassed, and Eva talked to her on her way home, but very cautiously.  Eva said the Korinna's house is going to be searched again tonight.  When Korinna told her parents that the house was going to be searched, they didn't have any idea what she was talking about.  But it didn't matter, because they had already gotten the Jews to their next hiding spot.
There was just one flaw: the hole behind the wardrobe.  If it was to be found, everybody would know they helped Jews.  Korinna's parents decided that they were going to have to run away as soon as possible.  At nightfall, if the people who were checking their house didn't come first.


CHAPTER 14
When night came, the search-party arrived at Korinna's house, and destroyed everything.  The last room they searched was the room with the hidden room where they harbored the Jews.  Korinna convinced them that she said it as a secret club-house because she was so dedicated to her afternoon club that she goes to every day.  When an officer pulled out Korinna's journal, he wanted to know why she tore out a page.  The page with the line "My parents are the enemy" on it.  She countered that assumption by saying it was a bad drawing, and she didn't want people to see it, so she tore it out.  Hans (The search leader) still didn't believe her, but he had no proof left, so he had to leave.  On his way out, he kicked Korinna's cat, leaving it un-moving on the floor.m


CHAPTER 15
The entire family was standing in shock.  Korinna was the first to move, to see if her cat was Okay, which he was.  After some time had passed, her father said they need to leave and they need to do it NOW.  So they took what was necessary and left.  They couldn't take the cat with them, though, so they left it with some friends on the way to where they were headed.