The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Hiding Place
Book Review: Christian Classic
Summary: 5 Stars
Inspirational, powerful account of God working in the life of one who put her trust in Him no matter what!Book Review: Courage from an Unexpected Group of Heroes
Summary: 5 Stars
I have read this book several times and it always awes and inspires me. This ordinary Dutch family--an elderly watchmaker and his two "spinster" daughters who are middle aged--risk everything to do all they can to help Jews during the Holocaust. Along with the help of friends and family members, they are Resistance warriors for quite some time until finally betrayed and sent to prison and then concentration camp. The story is moving and gripping, but mostly what is amazing is the faith and courage of each family member. Corrie discounts her own behavior and courage in favor of idolizing the response of her sister Betsie (creating a portrait of Betsie as a perfect, never bitter woman which is just about impossible to believe), but she herself learns and teaches true lessons about valor, perseverance and forgiveness. The book is well written, creating first the vignette of the simple happy family as the girls and their brother and sister grew up, then their decision to help the Jews and the ramifications of trying to learn how to do that with scant resources and knowledge. Then comes the betrayal and suffering, and she spares no details in her descriptions of the camp's horrors and the Nazis' cruelty (It never fails to shock and bewilder me that people could have believed as the Nazis believed and acted as the Nazis acted.) I am challenged in my Christian walk and my faith every time I read this book: could I have risen to the occasion in similar circumstances?Book Review: Directly Applicable to America in September 2001
Summary: 5 Stars
It is strange how things work out... "this true story of the heroic Ten Boom family proves that unspeakable evil can yield unimaginable goodness." The value of such a remark seems greatly magnified in wake of the despicable attacks on America. For once again, the world is bearing witness as catastrophic turpitude brings forth the very best of humanity.Other similarities exist between the narrative of a Christian family who hid many Jews during the holocaust and the terroristic murder of thousands of Americans by the modern forces of hell.
"The Hiding Place" refutes a current canard that will not please revisionists. As the invaders demanded the whereabouts of the Jews be revealed, one of the nazi goons was slugging then 50ish Corrie. When the pain of his fist pounding her face became unbearable, she cried out to Jesus for help. The tormentor warned her that if she used that name again he would kill her. To those who have rewritten history to say that Nazism was somehow a debased outgrowth of Christianity, here is another case where the facts prove otherwise. Hitler and his retinue despised Christianity as fervently as they hated Judaism. Such sentiments are alive and well among the Islamic extremists; however, true Islam with its message of peace is also a target of the terrorists' ire.
In yet another prescient instance Corrie speaks of a monograph her minister-brother wrote while still in divinity school, "way back in 1927, Willem had written in his doctoral thesis, done in Germany, that a terrible evil was taking root in that land. Right at the university, he said, seeds were being planted of contempt for human life such as the world had never seen." Thankfully nazism has been condemned to the ash heap of history, but the disregard for humanity is obviously alive and well.
Those whose hearts are still broken over the attack on our nation will find comfort in "the Hiding Place." It provides inspiring proof that evil will score a few victories, but, in the end, rectitude and integrity always triumph over hate. God Bless America!
Book Review: Don't miss out on this
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the best book I have ever read in my life! It touches your heart and soul. For anyone who wants to know what true faith and hope is. A real story that should not be missed out on.Book Review: EVEN IF WE LOSE EVERYTHING -- GOD IS STILL WATCHING OVER US
Summary: 5 Stars
I love true stories of courage and committment. That is what makes this book great.Corrie Ten Boom was committed to God and doing good. She risked her own life to help Jews in hiding during WWII. Then SHE became the victim of Nazi persecution in a concentration camp. Through it all she recalled her sister's advice that we should be thankful for ALL that God has given us, even the things we don't like.
She wondered how anybody could be grateful for the lice that infested the camp barracks that they slept in. Until she realized that the German guards AVOIDED the barracks because of the lice. The lice actually provided some protection from additional abuse.
Gratitude to God is one of the lessons I learned from this book.
--George Stancliffe