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…showed last 75 words of 447 total…was house checks by the soldiers. The German soldiers would occasionally invade your house and search it to be sure that you were not hiding anybody. In The Upstairs Room, Sini and Annie had a hiding place in the wall to stay in when the soldiers came for house checks. By reading The Upstairs Room, much can be learned of the many events and things that took place during the Holocaust by the descriptive setting.