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I read this book when I was a teenager. It is an extra-
ordinary book about Corrie Ten Boom's forgiving love during WWII. This is a good book for anyone to read; to
learn about people being oppressed, and other details
about WWI.
ordinary book about Corrie Ten Boom's forgiving love during WWII. This is a good book for anyone to read; to
learn about people being oppressed, and other details
about WWI.
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Corrie ten Boom is the daughter of a Dutch watchmaker during World War II. She and her family risk everything to make a hiding place for the Jews in Nazi invaded Holland and wind up paying the ultimate price. Corrie alone lives to tell the story of survival in the cruel Nazi concentration camps. While not an easy read, The Hiding Place tells a story that we must never forget. I first read The Hiding Place when I was a teen and it changed my life. As a home school mom I required each of my children to read it as well. I make it a point to read it again every year or two. This is a true story of great courage, sacrifice and love in the most horrific of circumstances.
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I love this story! It is one of the best and most uplifting Holocaust books that I have ever read. Of couse it tells of the evil that happened during that time, but it also tells of God's love and many of the miracles that happened during the time that her family was helpig to hide Jews and even after she was captured. Her family considered it an honor to die for the Jews they were hiding, and most of her family did die. If all families were this way the world would certainly be a nicer place! She lived to keep spreading LOVE and forgiveness everywhere she went after she was released. It is truly an amazing story, and very easy to read too. I finished it in two days.
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This is a great book about Corrie Ten Boom's experiences during WWII. She helped many Jews until she, along with her sister, was caught and sent to a concentration camp. We can learn much from her example of faith and courage even in the most dire of circumstances! A must read for everyone.
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fantastic book! super inspiring to learn about a woman whose faith in God brought her through the most tragic and horrible of circumstance... This book will change your life! "There is no pit that God is not deeper still." (quote from the book, one of my favs!)
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Incredibly encouraging book about a woman who holds to her faith in amazing ways before, during, and after being in concentration camps. A must read - the author will inspire you in your faith!
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wonderful and uplifting. A statement of courage and faith
This is my favorite Christian book of all. (and I've read MANY!) I've read it many times and have bought and given away numerous copies. If you haven't read Corrie Ten Boom, you'll want to read many more of her books after this one.
Classic true story of courage and compassion during the Nazi occupation of Holland.
A fascinating and moving story. Quite inspirational.
The Hiding Place is a riveting page-turner describing how a middle aged Dutch Watchmaker became a heroine of the Resistance, a survivor of Hitlers concentration camps, and one of the most remarkable evagelists of the twentieth century.
Only Corrie ten Boom survived to tell of how faith triumphed over evil, a story that would touch the hearts of millions.
Only Corrie ten Boom survived to tell of how faith triumphed over evil, a story that would touch the hearts of millions.
This book was at least as good in 2011 as it was when I read it first in about 1981. These people aren't just good religious people, they are spunky and humorous and human. They face the challenge of opposing the world gone mad under Hitler's regime, and come to grips with worse than life-threatening fears, and succeed brilliantly. It's a delightful peek at 1930's life in Holland, and makes you feel a part of a wonderfully "functional" family. The book also helps you feel the horror of WWII with its tragic destruction of cities, homes and people. It is one of the best books written.
This is a great book about Corrie Ten Boom's experiences during WWII. She helped many Jews until she, along with her sister, was caught and sent to a concentration camp. We can learn much from her example of faith and courage even in the most dire of circumstances! A must read for everyone.
Incredible story. A "must read".
This is a really interesting book that feels like "The Diary of Anne Frank" and some similar stories.
One of my all-time favorite books to inspire christians.
This is one of my favorite books. This presents a true Christianity--Jesus present "in the midst" of trouble.
True story about a family from Holland who hid Jews in their home during WW2. We have all read about the war and this was another account of the horrors many people experienced. Excellent story of how faith helps people get through trials.
This is an excellent book about Jews being hidden during the Nazi occupation, somewhat like "The Diary of Ann Frank."
An inspirational classic -- Anne Frank from the other side.
A Classic about World War II and the treatment of those sympathetic to the Jewish population in Germany.
Always an inspiration!
This is a great book about Corrie Ten Boom's experiences during WWII. She helped many Jews until she, along with her sister, was caught and sent to a concentration camp. We can learn much from her example of faith and courage even in the most dire of circumstances! A must read for everyone.
I read this book when I was 12 years old and I have never forgotten it. It is an eyeopening true story which will show you how the heart can overcome adversity. Love was put into the writing of this book and I highly recommend it.
An extraordinary example of Christ's love. The people in this book show a true example of how to love the way Jesus did. Wonderful book. Inspiring and encouraging. Beautiful!
One of the best books I have ever read. This is required reading in my house for my children before they leave home. You will walk with Corrie and her sister as they experience both the horrors evil men, and women, can do to each other and the incredible mercy and forgivemenss humankind can also give to one another. An amazing book of survival, faith validated, and forgiveness.
This is a book I have read and shared with many others throughout my life. The lives of Corrie and her family were truly amazing.The level of their faith puts most of us to shame.
Read (or re-read) this wonderful book and cling to the encouragement it will give you.
We need it in this day and age.
Read (or re-read) this wonderful book and cling to the encouragement it will give you.
We need it in this day and age.
A must-read. Riveting and honest.
An outstanding book. Ten Boom tells the story of her family during
World War II, how their Christian values cause them to take in Jewish neighbors, setting up an underground support system. Eventually caught, the story becomes one of survival through God's will and protection first in a Dutch prison, then in a concentration camp. A gripping story of God's grace, I could not put it down.
World War II, how their Christian values cause them to take in Jewish neighbors, setting up an underground support system. Eventually caught, the story becomes one of survival through God's will and protection first in a Dutch prison, then in a concentration camp. A gripping story of God's grace, I could not put it down.
This is a life-changing book. You will never be the same after reading it. It takes you to a dark place where you think you surely cannot survive, even wishing to die at times. You wonder if God has deserted you, and you were only trying to good in the world. But then God shows up in amazing ways that can only be described as Divine Providence. You realize you were chosen to be used to a higher purpose than you ever dreamed. Needs to be read more than once in your lifetime to always keep it fresh in your mind.
Amazing book! It is always exciting to see God prepare a Christian for important events and then guide him through them! Corrie learned how to think and live like a Christian. What a powerful testimony! Trust God and when you look back, you will understand why the trials were essential to your life.
Okay, so the many five stars all around on this here book page were warranted. It's a heartbreaking, painful read. It's also full of faith, strength, kindness and perseverance. I'm very glad I gave it a listen. The narrator is terrific and emotive and has the ability to draw you into the time and place instead of taking you out of it!
Corrie ten Boom is a 40 something spinster at peace with her quiet life. She is a watchmaker in her father's shop and lives with her older sister and their kind father. She never expected to become embroiled in an underground revolution but when German soldiers invade her homeland and friends and neighbors start to disappear because they are Jewish or lending Jewish families safe harbor, she can't stand by and do nothing. As conditions become increasingly worse for the unfortunate people in her beloved town, she decides to put her life in danger in order to save those of others. Her family has a hidden room built and they take in the desperate. Eventually she is imprisoned, along with most of her family. She recounts the long, grueling days of hellish conditions in prison and in concentration camps. The sickness, the starvation and the everyday cruelties inflicted.
I'm not religious but these characters are and they walk with a strong belief and unwavering (for the most part) faith and a gratitude for everything, even ants and fleas, yet I never felt preached at. Their faith makes up a big part of who they were and how they managed to make it through the inhumane conditions. If you read this account, it will leave a mark on you for certain. It's not a book I will easily forget.
Corrie ten Boom is a 40 something spinster at peace with her quiet life. She is a watchmaker in her father's shop and lives with her older sister and their kind father. She never expected to become embroiled in an underground revolution but when German soldiers invade her homeland and friends and neighbors start to disappear because they are Jewish or lending Jewish families safe harbor, she can't stand by and do nothing. As conditions become increasingly worse for the unfortunate people in her beloved town, she decides to put her life in danger in order to save those of others. Her family has a hidden room built and they take in the desperate. Eventually she is imprisoned, along with most of her family. She recounts the long, grueling days of hellish conditions in prison and in concentration camps. The sickness, the starvation and the everyday cruelties inflicted.
I'm not religious but these characters are and they walk with a strong belief and unwavering (for the most part) faith and a gratitude for everything, even ants and fleas, yet I never felt preached at. Their faith makes up a big part of who they were and how they managed to make it through the inhumane conditions. If you read this account, it will leave a mark on you for certain. It's not a book I will easily forget.
