This pictoral description of the events that occurred during the hiding of Jonny Levy and his brothers was provided by Albert Geurink, son of Willem and Dina.

The following illustration is a location map drawing from the chapter, written (and also drawn??) by Mr. Henny Bennink, about the war story of Willem and Dina (Wisselink) Geurink. Mr. Bennink published this drawing on page 2 of the war story of my parents.

Translations:
a. in the two drawn blocks:
- VOORMALIGE BOERDERIJ GEURINK = FORMER FARM OF THE GEURINKS
- ONVOLLEDIGE PLATTEGROND LICHTENVOORDE = INCOMPLETE MAP OF (*THE SOUTH PART OF THE TOWN OF) LICHTENVOORDE

[*Note Albert G.: the MARTIN LELIVELTSTRAAT (*MARTIN LELIVELT STREET) was renamed on May 5, 2009, to the WILLEM (AND DINA) GEURINKSTRAAT].

b. In the big circle:
- BOERDERIJ GEURINK = GEURINK FARM
- kippenhok = chicken barn
- voorhuis = front part of the farm [*where the Geurink Family lived]
- varkensschuur = pigsty
- stal en deel = cowshed [*also for their horse] and open part in this barn
- karloods - wagon barn
And:
- Ligging van de drie voornaamste schuilplaatsen: 1 de ondergrondse kelder; 2 de ruimte op de hooizolder op de hooizolder 3 de ruimte in de karloods; 4 de opkamer in de woongedeelte van de boerderij.
Translation:
- Location of the three [*must be four!] most important hiding-places: 1. the underground cellar [*note A.G.: ment for the three jewish boys and sometimes also their parents and Bas Berger); 2. the (*hiding) place on the hay attic; 3 the place in the wagon barn; 4. a sleeping room in hte front living part of the farm.

Note: There were 2 more hiding-places: 5. on the attic of the pigsty (at the end of the pigsty, just above the entrance of the underground cellar number 1). and 6, a small hiding-place at the end of the stairs to the attic of the front part of the farm, just under the wooden attic floor, for cases of direct emergency.

You see the original T-form of the farm of my parents, with at the left side their former pigsty. Here we look at the front side of the farm, where the living part of the farm was located, with on the first floor, the attic where during the war the Levy boys and Alex Sidorov were during day time, with a permanent watch throught the two front windows and the small attic window at the left side. Then the surrounding trees were much smaller, so these give no problems to look over them. This picture was printed on the front page of the chapter of Mr. Bennink. [*Note: Be aware that the other Geurink farm pictured on the Geurink site has the similar T-form!!].

2. The farm pictures taken from my parents' fruit orchard:

At the very left you see the former wagon barn. We are looking at the front of the smaller pigsty, where the underground cellar was located, after the war used as a rain water reservoir. On the attic of this pigsty (behind the green wooden door there) also another hiding-place was located between the kept straw bales there.

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