Plot Summary
The Hiding place is a book about the life of Corrie ten Boom, her family, those she helped and her love for God. The book starts with Corrie as a young girl and growing up with a house full of family and watches. Her mother passed away after suffering a stroke but that caused her father to continue to keep the house full with people. They always had foster children coming and going and friends and family coming to visit. After her sister (Nollie ten Boom) and her brother(Willem ten boom) moved out of the house and got married it was only her father(Caspar ten Boom) and her sister (Bestie ten boom) and herself. Around the time of the 1930s, Germany took Haarlem, Holland, this is where Corrie and her family lived. Many Jews where looking for places to hide and the Ten Boom family took in anyone who asked. When there home was too full to take any more people in they would send those in need to friends homes who were willing to help the whole operation. After the Nazis found out about the underground operation, they came to the home and pressed them for information. The Ten Booms and those helping them were later sent to a prison called Scheveningen. There they were separated from each other and the prison conditions were poor but Corrie kept herself together by continuing to read the word of God. That was an ever present theme in Corrie's life,
she showed no hate and even prayed for the officers asking God to forgive them. She was always showing Gods love and continuing to tell the word of God to people in all of the places she was sent to, no matter how gruesome they may be. Corrie's father died only 10 days after they were sent to Scheveningen. When six moths had passed in the prisons they were sent to a town called Ravensbruck, Germany. It was the home of a very brutal concentration camp. Here they were forced to stay in lice and flea infested bunks, work terribly long hours, and have to listen to the constant killings of those around them. Her Older sister Betsie who had stayed by Corrie's side through it all, died on December 16th 1994 from all of the work and malnutrition. On December 28th 1994 Corrie was released from the camp and was sent home, she decided to set up a rehabilitation center in the Netherlands for the concentration camp survivors and the people in hiding.
she showed no hate and even prayed for the officers asking God to forgive them. She was always showing Gods love and continuing to tell the word of God to people in all of the places she was sent to, no matter how gruesome they may be. Corrie's father died only 10 days after they were sent to Scheveningen. When six moths had passed in the prisons they were sent to a town called Ravensbruck, Germany. It was the home of a very brutal concentration camp. Here they were forced to stay in lice and flea infested bunks, work terribly long hours, and have to listen to the constant killings of those around them. Her Older sister Betsie who had stayed by Corrie's side through it all, died on December 16th 1994 from all of the work and malnutrition. On December 28th 1994 Corrie was released from the camp and was sent home, she decided to set up a rehabilitation center in the Netherlands for the concentration camp survivors and the people in hiding.