The Hiding Place by John Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill, Corrie ten Boom Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Hiding Place
Book Review: Moving, faith strengthening account!
Summary: 5 Stars
"The Hiding Place" by Corrie Ten Boom has to be one of the most moving, faith strengthening, profound books I have ever read!!! Corrie and the Ten Boom family decide to take a stand and hide and help their Jewish friends and neighbors in Nazi occupied Holland. The Ten Boom's build a hiding place within their home and assist in helping hundreds of others in finding safe shelter from the Nazi's, all the while putting them in constant peril. The true story that ensues describes horrors beyond belief. Even when faced with extreme adversity, the Ten Boom's push on insisting on relying upon their incredible faith in their savior, Jesus Christ. The Ten Boom's lived a life of faith that we all wish we had the guts to live! This book was incredible and life changing! Christian or not, this is a book that teaches us beyond just our faith that whatever we face, we must love one another regardless of the person or situation you are faced with, including the people who in the Ten Boom's case, where actually persecuting them!Book Review: NOT ENOUGH STARS
Summary: 5 Stars
Even putting this book on a rating system seems an injustice. This is a side of the Holocaust you may not have read before, the inexhaustible faith of two women who offered up all that they had to give (including life) in order to save God's chosen "ancient people" as she calls them. She had a reverence and respect for Jews from whom Christ came that endeared me to her instantly. I truly believe that every last person on the face of the earth should read this book. But know that just as someone can hold out a gift for you but you must reach out and receive it for it to be yours - so to is the truth and light and hope and strength this book offers. If this story does not move your very soul, you still have some growing to do. Leave it alone and come back to it in a few years.
It might help to know: With a hundred things on my daily to do list, and this book being over 250 pages long, I still read it in two days. I could not put it down. I was reading every time I had two minutes put together throughout the day.
Book Review: No other book has impacted me as this one...
Summary: 5 Stars
What I have learned in this book has directly and indirectly been used throughout many years. No other story has affected me like The Hiding Place. It has been such an encouragement; and how blessed I am to know about the ten Boom family and Corrie's testimony! Her books and videos have had a profound impact on me, and countless others.Book Review: One of the Best Books I've Ever Read
Summary: 5 Stars
Without question, one of the best books I have ever read, The Hiding Place should be required reading for any Christian. This gripping account of the life of Corrie Ten Boom is full of stories of the great power and glory of God, experienced by those who were going through the darkest times of World War II.
One of my fears in picking up this book was that it, like other World War II memoirs of those who were brutalized by the Nazis, would be full of gruesome tales and vivid descriptions. While the reader certainly understands that horrible things took place in the camps, Ten Boom and her coauthors simply do not focus on using horrible events to shock their readers. Instead, in an amazingly Christlike way, Corrie and Betsy looked through the horror of the circumstances to the ways in which God was with them.
Christians who read this book will learn more vividly some of the glorious truths of the Bible. Readers learn how to give thanks to God in all circumstances as they watch Corrie learn to be thankful for fleas and an ant. Christians will learn of the power of God's word to truly sustain those who rely on it through hardships. Believers will learn of the great hope of heaven which allows us to walk through the hardships of this life. Christians will see self-sacrifice, familial love, and even how to love their enemies in a way that is seldom taught in our world today.
If you are a believer who has not read this text, which looks a little like Little House on the Prairie meets World War II Germany, I cannot urge you strongly enough to set aside a few hours and allow your heart to be touched by this gripping, true tale.
Book Review: One of the best books to ever make an impression on a young girl
Summary: 5 Stars
Thank you Corrie Ten Boom for putting your life into words so the world can know and never forget the real happenings of the Holocaust and how evil hitler really was.
I will be giving this to my granddaughter so she will know the truth of history and not what is being taught or not taught in today's schools.
May 3, 2009.