For the first fifty years of Corrie ten Boom’s life, nothing special ever happened to her. She was an unmarried watchmaker living contentedly with her sister and their elderly father in Holland. However, with the Nazi invasion, everything changed. Corrie and her family became leaders in the Dutch Underground, hiding Jewish people in their home in a specially built room and aiding their escape from the Nazis.
Eventually the authorities became aware of their work and the family was arrested and taken to a political prisoner camp. Corrie and Betsie ten Boom spent nearly a year in a series of prison camps, under appalling conditions. Their deep Christian faith was key to survival. But only Corrie survived the war.
After the war, Corrie set up rehabilitation centers in the Netherlands, lectured about her experience, and taught others based on the Christian Gospels and themes of forgiveness. She wrote a book, The Hiding Place, that chronicles the life of the ten Boom family before and after the war.
The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom is an interesting memoir from a dark time in the history of humankind.
Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom 