Bob Barriga Chapter Summaries

Bob Barriga was an ordinary man, but unlike some Germans, he despised it when people did awful things to the Jewish. He lived next to the Franks and he always did his best to help them out. Bob was getting particularly worried for the Franks when the Nazi’s took over Amsterdam. Bob was there when the Franks were deciding to go into hiding. The discussion started off when Mrs. Frank said, “I’m worried, I don’t what is going to happen to us.”
Mr. Frank replied, “We can get through this, but we have to stay together.”
At that moment, Bob knocked on the door. Mr. Frank slowly walked over to the door and carefully listened for words, but he did not hear anything. Mr. Frank stayed there for a moment which felt like a lifetime. Finally, Bob knocked again and this time he said, “Hello is anyone there.” “Who is it?”
He had grown a beard, mustache, let his hair grow out, and had started to grows some wrinkles and was barely starting to get white hair on the sides of his hair. After Bob was first arrested, he stayed in a jail cell for about two weeks. Then he was moved to Amersfoort labour camp where he had spent the rest of time till now. He had met many people who were arrested for hiding or helping Jews. The labour camp had very little food and poor hygiene which caused lots of diseases, many people became weak from overwork and the guards treated them with violence, but Bob was still able to survive and stay healthy and strong. One thing he had been working on is that he found some a small hole where the concrete was very weak and broke easily and him and a friend named Joe who knew where a resistance fighter camp was in Amsterdam. For a few weeks Bob and Joe had used spoons to break a bigger hole in the wall, but the hole was finally big enough for someone to fit through. Bob and Joe were waiting till it was night time to leave. They were very jittery and jumpy during the day because if they were caught trying to escape, they would get