The Hiding Place Corrie Ten Boom

Corrie ten Boom writes a book called The Hiding Place, and it explains how she and her family helped Jews during the Holocaust. It took a lot of bravery and courage for the ten Booms to put their lives on the line to save the lives of nearly 800 Jews. The ten Booms show that instead of disregarding the jews and not helping them, they open their home for anybody who needs help. Even through the dark times, the ten Booms always have a strong feeling that something good will happen and continue spread the love of Jesus. The ten Booms hope that Jesus can deliver the soldiers from evil and keep spirits of everyone who is suffering from the Holocaust. The ten Booms respond to their environment by providing a temporary home for Jewish people and

In the story, a Jewish lady comes to the ten Booms residence for shelter because her husband has been arrested and her son is in hiding. Instead of rejecting the woman, the ten Booms welcome her to their home. The narrator says, “But Mrs. Kleermaker accepted it gratefully, plunging into the story of how her husband had been arrested some months before, her son gone into hiding. She was afraid now to go back to the apartment above it. “In this household,” Father said, “God’s people are always welcome” (Boom 64). Casper ten Boom is willing to risk his life and his daughter’s life to help a Jewish person in need. If they are caught hiding a Jew, the whole family could be sent to prison or a concentration camp. Corrie ten Boom must provide enough ration cards for her family and the Jews in hiding. Corrie develops a contact to get the extra ration cards. The process of getting the ration cards could get Corrie and the contact sent to prison. The narrator says, “If it happened at noon,” he said slowly, “when just the record clerk and I are there . . . and if they found us tied and gagged . . .” He snapped his fingers. “And I know just the man who might

She spreads the love of Jesus to keep fellow prisoners faith in being released. Without Bestie’s prayers, Corrie would not be optimistic during her sentence at the camp. Betsie ten Boom says, “These young women. That girl back at the bunkers. Corrie, if people can be taught to hate, they can be taught to love! We must find the way, you and I, no matter how long it takes. . . .” (Boom 125). This reveals that Betsie sees the goodness in everyone, and she does not believe that the person is evil. The person is surrounded by evil. Betsie and Corrie are taken to Vught, and Betsie sees the opportunity to spread love while they are there. She sees how much hate the concentration camps bring, and the only outcome of hate is even more hate. If Betsie and Corrie spread love, then all of the hate will turn into love for one another. While Betsie and Corrie are prisoners at the concentration camp, they try to help fellow prisoners. They helped the prisoners by comforting them with the love of Jesus. Betsie and Corrie gave the prisoners hope when they did not have any. The narrator says, “In the midst of their agony, each sought to comfort cold and desperately hungry fellow prisoners, often speaking a last word affirming the presence of Christ to those destined for the gas chambers” (Holt 52). Betsie and Corrie are truly good people by nature. Despite being in a bad environment