The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom Mass Market Paperback – October 1, 1974

Such an amazing book about being human, yet growing in such amazing faith! Anyone can benefit from reading this book!

I am currently taking a class in my church that has to do with forgiveness, It is called Freedom.And being set free by the act of forgiveness through the power of Jesus. This book was mentioned in that class and after reading it. I can not overstate the amazing blessing that this book has made in my own learning and understanding of the power of Jesus and the very act of forgiveness. This is an amazing book ! And I was truly blessed by the story of Corrie Ten Bloom. I would recommend this book to Everyone !

My 11 year old daughter and I just finished reading this heart wrenching book. Although it is so difficult to read, the Truth shines so brightly! Jesus…The Way, The Truth, and The Life!

An incredible story of Hope, Faith & Love… Corrie’s story, and that of her family, is one that is sad but inspiring. I can highly recommend this book, as Corrie shares how she overcomes Nazi oppression by teaching and showing others the true, deep love of Christ.

I’ve read many stories of the Holocaust… the horrors of that history…& the heroes who survived it…but I hadn’t heard Corrie Ten Boom’s story…& I’m so grateful I read it… but it wasn’t the horror that swept me up… it was the survival through faith… the sharing of God’s word with each other as her family had always done…it was a good read…

I read "THE HIDING PLACE" in 1974, quite soon after it was published. I was in high school and while I do not remember every detail of the book, I have never forgotten the Ten Boom sisters and their exquisite faith in God. Betsie with her shining delight and unquestioning gratitude; Corrie with her strength of character and moral determination. Of course, they had family and friends: Father, so wise and kind; Willem, their minister brother, working with the underground movement; Nollie, the exasperatingly honest sister.I REMEMBER the wisdom of the father:When Corrie was a child she asked her father to tell her about sex. He asked her to try to pick up a heavy suitcase that he had with him. When she was unable to do it, he said that the same was true with knowledge in life: there are some things to heavy for us to know until we are old enough to bear the burden.I REMEMBER the wisdom of THE FATHER:The Ten Boom sisters recognized the "governance of God in all things". While Betsie was able to thank God for "all circumstances", Corrie declared that she simply could NOT be grateful for the FLEAS in the bunk rooms in Ravensbruck concentration camp. Nothing Betsie says can change her mind, and the sisters enjoy a bit of humor at Corrie's obstinacy. There is even more ironic humor when the sisters later find that it is disinclination of being infested with these very FLEAS that keeps the guards out of the sleeping quarters, thus allowing the sisters to conduct forbidden Bible study meetings.ONE DISTURBING MEMORY:This is a quote Corrie used to relate the fear that was building as far back as 1927 about the Hitler war machine:"A full ten years ago, way back in 1927, Willem had written in his doctoral thesis, done in Germany, that a terrible evil was taking root in the land. Right at the university, he said, seeds were being planted of a contempt for human life such as the world had never seen. The few who had read his paper had laughed.And so the shadow fell across us that winter afternoon in 1937, but it rested lightly. Nobody dreamed that this tiny clould would grow until it blocked out the sky."MY RECALL of this quote is disturbing because I see that same "contempt for human life" taking root not in one land, but globally. We have all become desensitized to the brutality that we commit against one another. I see the television offerings that are considered amusement, I read reports of atrocities that are taken as a matter of course, authority figures have carte blanche against unarmed citizens... something is very wrong and I fear the shadow that will fall across us will not be content to block out the sky, it will seek to engulf the entire world with darkness.

I love the Hiding Place! My father was a WWII veteran & I have enjoyed understanding more about that evil time. Corrie, Willem, Betsie, Nollie, Kik, Peter & the entire Ten Boom family lived a life of sacrifice, displaying to the world what it's like to walk in JESUS' footsteps!

I really enjoyed reading about Corrie and her faith