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I read this one ages ago… This is the true story of Corrie ten Boom and her family who lived in the Netherlands during the Nazi occupation. She, her sister Betsie, and their elderly father were watchmakers. They lived a quiet life… until the Nazi invasion. The family became part of the Dutch underground and hid Jewish families in a secret room built for that purpose in their home. Corrie, Betsie, and their father were sent to concentration camps. Only Corrie survived. She was released due to a clerical error. Corrie used to say, “There is no pit so deep that God's love is not deeper still,” which was something Betsie said to her not long before she died in the camp. This is a heartbreaking story, but at the same time, a beautiful story of faith and of God’s grace.

By the way, you can take a virtual tour of the house and museum at corrietenboom.com.

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What a fantastic read. A memoir that gripped me from the very beginning. It moved from her young life and family, through her growing up, her work as a part of the underground movement to help Jews escape the Nazis, her arrest with others in her family, and finally her final transformation at a concentration camp in Germany. It is through her relationship with her sister Betsie that Corrie actually grows still closer to Jesus. I am simply amazed at the story told here. Read this. Share the story that Betsie and Corrie need to tell the world. Love will overcome every evil.

I read this a few months ago and took notes but when it came time to make the journal entry, I was in a hard place and just didn't feel up to it. I'm really glad I read this, though. It made me think a lot. Corrie was a beautiful and strong woman who accomplished much with the help of the Father. I'm thankful she put her story down for us all to be inspired!

This is a very moving and gripping story of some one who decided to help Jews in Holland and ended up in a concentration camp, where she lost her sister and father. It's harrowing and touching, and deeply involves her Christian faith. Had I read this ten years ago, I would have been swept up in her faithfulness, but at this point all I can wonder is why would God keep her vitamins from running out? If you're going to intervene, by all means take Hitler out of the equation. This have faith and see small miracles thing seems only to cause pain to those with faith who never receive their miracles. The Holocaust just doesn't seem like the time to be showing up in the vitamins and not with the cavalry.

At 50 years old, Corrie ten Boom lived a simple life with her older sister, both of them unmarried, and their elderly father in a small house in Holland. When the Nazis invaded and occupied their country, Corrie quickly saw the need around her as Jews began to be shipped out. The ten Boom house and watchmaker shop became part of the Dutch Underground, helping those who were persecuted find a safe place, even to the point of building a small hiding place in their own house. In this book, Corrie shares much of her life before the occupation, including the faith that led her and her family to help those in needs, culminating in the arrest and imprisonment of many members of her family, and later to her time in a concentration camp alongside her sister Betsie.

This book is incredible in so many ways. It's inspirational, and not only because of what the ten Booms did to help others. It's the reason behind their desire to help, the way that it really wasn't even a question about whether or not they would help, and the way that they affected everyone around them, even in the darkest of places. The strong faith in God that Corrie's parents had, exhibited, and passed on to their children shows through every page of this book. Corrie herself struggled the most in this area, constantly learning from her other family members and being surprised by their heart for the oppressors. Yet she never questioned whether or not she should help the Jews around her at the risk of her own well-being.

Not many Holocaust-related accounts that I have read are from a Christian perspective, and I really appreciated seeing the little and big ways that Corrie and Betsie could see God involved in their plight. Though they never demanded that He help them, they trusted Him (again, Betsie more than Corrie) and gave Him credit when they saw Him work. I can only hope that in my everyday life, and even moreso when times of difficulty come, I can have the wisdom of Mr. ten Boom, the love of Mrs. ten Boom, the hope of Betsie ten Boom, the courage of Corrie ten Boom, and the faith exhibited by all of them.

Below are some quotes from the book that I marked to remember.

Casper ten Boom upon the realization that Holland would soon be invaded:

"...I am sorry for all Dutchmen now who do not know the power of God. For we will be beaten. But He will not."

Corrie discovered that a large piece of sharp debris had landed on her pillow while she was out of bed:

"Betsie, if I hadn't heard you in the kitchen--"

But Betsie put her finger on my mouth. "Don't say it, Corrie! There are no 'if's' in God's world. And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety..."

And the one that stuck out to me the most, from an elderly member of Corrie's family who spent much of her life running clubs, writing tracts, always trying to further God's kingdom. When she learned she didn't have long to live, her family members told her she was going to the Father with hands full, due to all of her work. She replied:

"Empty, empty! How can we bring anything to God? What does He care for our little tricks and trinkets?"

And then as we listened in disbelief she lowered her hands and with tears still coursing down her face whispered, "Dear Jesus, I thank You that You have done all--all--on the cross, and that all we need in life or death is to be sure of this."

This is the remarkable story of Corrie Ten Boom and her family who, at risk of their lives, followed the mandate of their Christian understanding by providing refuge to Jews marked for death by Nazi forces occupying the Netherlands during World War II.

Originally published in 1971.
You will need a whole box of tissues! Awesome read! I read sometime in 1984 after high school.

I read this book as a teenager. Looking back I realize this was probably my first autobiography. Amazing story by an exceptional woman.

I think this book should be read by all school kids in addition to or in place of "The Diary of Anne Frank".

At first the book started a bit slow, but picked up around 20% in. All in all, I am so much the better for having read this, especially facing the reality of humanity’s depravity for how it moves me to pray more and seek to do good for God’s sake. Additionally, for the insights of God’s truth, His character, and leaning on Him from the ten Boom sisters and their father, shared in the midst of their daily lives. Wow, just wow!

This was a re-read from about 30-40 years ago. I thoroughly enjoyed the book, even though the topic was depressing. I'm still impressed with Corrie's physical and spiritual strength. 267 pages

This book was so sad yet hopeful and inspiring. The history of what happened in concentration camps during World War II is an important one to learn about. I’m grateful books like these exist, and I’m grateful Corrie went on to tell people of the horrors of the concentration camps and of the love and forgiveness of Jesus.

New York

A great parallel read to Elie Wiesel's NIGHT. Two vastly different views on the impact of the Holocaust to the authors.

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The Hiding Place is an autobiographical memoir by Corrie ten Boom, a devoutly Christian woman who lived in the Holland city of Haarlem during the Nazi occupation. Compelled by her unshakeable Christian morality, she defied tyranny to rescue her Jewish neighbors who faced annihilation during the Holocaust.

This is the true story of Corrie Ten Boom. How her and her family hid people in their homes during the darkest days of World War II—until they were betrayed and arrested. Corrie writes about how her worst fear was being sent to a German concentration camp. As long as she was in prison in Holland she felt safe.

In My Father's House is the story of Corrie's life with her mother, father, her siblings, and aunts before World War II began. This book is a testament to how God prepared one family through a father's faithfulness to his Savior and the Word of God for the most sacrificial service a family could do.

Tramp for the Lord is a book of short vignettes of evangelist Corrie ten Boom’s life following hermrelease from the Nazi concentration camp at Ravensbrück, spanning almost forty years. The collection of anecdotes each has a spiritual lesson attached to it.

The book is accessible and easy to read. It is most definitely rooted in the Evangelical tradition, something I admit to having moved away from in my own spiritual journey.

I gave the book four stars because of its accessibility and it’s simple but profound messages.

Mrs. ten Boom seems to have a depth of trust in divine provision way beyond my own, something which at times challenged me. Do I not trust God enough? If I ask for money or air tickets in order to do His work will he provide for me in the same way? You do not get because you do not ask?

I sometimes feel that her faith was bordering on the common criticism of Evangelicalism that it can reduce God to a slot machine in a penny arcade that pays out on every pull of the handle.

But maybe that’s my problem, something of my own cynicism. For in these pages I read of a woman who God had continued to inspire, even after the loss of her mother, sister and auntie and her own experience in a concentration camp, to carry on spreading the Good News of Jesus Christ throughout the World.

She often put her own life at risk travelling to Communist and war torn African countries to speak to and inspire other Christians.

No, in spite of my misgivings I came away feeling inspired and enlivened by what I’d read. Maybe I’m still an Evangelical at heart!

In My Father's House is the story of a young Corrie Ten Boom and her family long before the War. This story shows how her background and especially her faith in Jesus was to help her and many others during her time of testing during World War II.

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Great account of two sisters and how they deal with a concentration camp after their family hides Jews from the Nazis in occupied Holland. Shows power of forgiveness (they are good Christians).