The Hiding Place
ByCorrie ten Boom,John Sherrill,+1 more
1971 • 242 pages
Ratings32
Average rating4.3
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Ratings32
Average rating4.3
Corrie ten Boom stood naked with her older sister Betsie, watching a concentration camp matron beating a prisoner. "Oh, the poor woman," Corrie cried. "Yes. May God forgive her," Betsie replied. And, once again, Corrie realized that is was for the souls of the brutal Nazi guards that her sister prayed. Both women had been sent to the camp for helping the Jews. Christ's spirit and words were their guide; it was His persecuted people they tried to save--at the risk of their own lives; it was His strength that sustained them through times of profound horror.
Here is a book aglow with the glory of God and the courage of a quiet Christian spinster whose life was transformed by it. A story of Christ's message and the courageous woman who listened and lived to pass it along--with joy and triumph.
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This book reads like a novel but is non-fiction. Remembering that as I read it made everything even more horrific. And yet, the hope that Corrie ten Boom and especially her sister Betsie clung to throughout their lives and especially in the prison and extermination camps challenged me. How can people facing such horrors believe in a good and saving God when I struggle with it in my cushy life? I was also disturbed by how much of what happened back then seems to be repeating itself in present day. Maybe not in the same way, but with a lot of the same hate and distrust of others. What does it look like in my life to make sure we build a different world?
Deeply moving story about a Dutch family who helped and housed Jewish people during the Holocaust. I had never heard about this book before, despite it being 50 years old at this point. Glad I checked it out.
