The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Hiding Place
Book Review: Every word of 'Hiding Place' was written with God's Love
Summary: 5 Stars
I thank the Lord in my prayers for bringing Corrie & her family into my life & that of my children, even though it is only through her books. When I first read the book, I went & bought all the other ones by her. At least all the ones I could find. I have grown spiritually and her book has been an inspiration as well as help in some of my personal struggles. No one should miss out. I recommend her books constantly to everyone I know & I use her stories to encourage others as well as witness.Book Review: Faith enriching
Summary: 5 Stars
I read this book to do a book report for my Chruch Confirmation class. I can easily and truthfully say that this is one of the best books I have ever read. I could hardly put it down, and it certainly brought me closer to God. And it's so iteresting- right in the middle of her life, Corrie starts to help protect Jews in her home, and later gets caught. When she's in prision, (and later in a concentration camp) she and her sister don't give up faith. They continue to spread God's will to all of the prisioners, and even some of the prision guards. The cozy family in the beggining is fun to read about, and the close sister relationship later brought me to tears. It also showed me how far God's love can reach, and how anything can happen with faith. In my opionion, this book is right up there with Anne Frank in the catagory of WW2 classics, and it is a must read for any Christion.Book Review: Get out of it what you put into it
Summary: 5 Stars
This book was not written to entertain, but to uplift and inform.
I saw the movie first with my friend and her family in my early teenage years. I remember how I started to sweat and fear for those people who were victims of the holocaust and how sick at heart and soul I became over the atrocities that occured. They paid a shocking price for choosing to do what was right, not easy.
The book is much better than the movie (though it was okay) and you get a good taste of what being a true Christian is, if you have no idea beforehand what a good example of charity (the true love of Christ) is outside of the scriptures. But you don't have to be a Christian to read it. The book is good for everyone who wants to know more about history from someone who survived it.
If you are very young or forced to read this as 'required' by a teacher, you may not care for it based on the idea you are not given a choice. Neither was Corrie. Yet, she made the best of what she was given because in those camps, according to everything I've read, you only had control over one thing: your attitude. Real life is the same. Corrie and those who survived took persistent, consistent faith in a power greater than themselves to a new level.
Book Review: God is Great!
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved this book! I was required to read it for school and at first I thought I wouldn't like it, but the more I got into it, the more I did enjoy it. The book really reminds us that God really is in control of our lives and his timing is perfect! The fact that they released her from prison was a mistake on the German's part. They weren't supposed to have released her. If she hadn't been released, a week later she would have been put into a gas chamber and died. God works in mysterious ways!!Book Review: God really does work miracles
Summary: 5 Stars
As I began to read this book, for a school project, I immediatly liked it; The story of a dutch family who took care of Jews during World War II. The main character, Corrie Ten Boom, also the author of this wonderful novel, lived with her father, and sister at a place called the Beje, connected to her father's watchmaking shop. They began to take Jews in and care for them. As time goes on they begin, with Corrie Ten Boom as the ring leader, to grow deeper into this underground project. A secret room is built, ration cards are stolen, homes are found, drills are run for the six jews who began to permantly stay at the Beje. They are finally found out and are arrested and taken to several prison camps, although the jews hiding werer never found by the gestapo. I must have read four-fifths through this book before I realized that it wasn't just a deep story of a caring dutch family who went through so much suffering just to help others, but that it was also proof that God does work miracles and that he does watch over us, no matter what we believe. Being a Christian myself, I was touched by this book, and when I realized how God was working in Corrie Ten Boom and her sister, Betsie Ten Boom's, lives I was touched deeply and immediatly started ranting to my mother about the miracles that had happened in the book. There are at least four instances in 'The Hiding Place' where acts of God are shown in miracles. I deeply suggest this book to anyone and everyone who has ever understood what it's like to suffer for others, and for everyone who hasn't.