The Hiding Place Corrie Ten Boom Summary

THE HIDING PLACE SUMMARY
The Hiding Place a biography about a young girl named Corrie Ten Boom. She was a jew who lived in Holland during the Holocaust. The book tells all of her strugles throught world war II and how she saved many lives.
Corrie Ten Boom was born April 15, 1892 in Haarlem, Holland. Corrie had two siblings: Willem, Nolli, and Betsie. Corrie’s mother had died and the two oldest siblings moved out. Betsie, Corrie, and Casper were all that was left in home. Her father, Casper Ten Boom owned a watch making shop and the ten boom three lived in the apartment above the shop. The Ten Booms were very strong christians, which was a very dangerous thing to be in Europe in 1940.
During world war II, Hitler, Germany’s ruler, wanted to create a perfect country. Germany attacked Holland, and they surrendured. There were laws made against jews, and the overall goal was to get rid of them. Hitler began to send out police (also known as gestapo) to find jews and put them in prisons or consentration camps.

During this time period, the watch shop was used for much more than watch making.

The Ten Booms opened it up as a safe place for jews in hiding. The appartment was very small, but they made many compartments and places to hide in there. Corries brother, Willem is a leader in an underground movement. He helps his sisters and father get the recources and help they need.
As time went on, the gestapo grew suspicious of the watch shop and eventually raided the

apartment.
The entire family was arrested for hiding the jews. The family was separated and moved around. Eventually everyone but Betsie and Corrie were released. Corrie and Betsie reunite and recieve news that their father died. They got to be temporarily released to grieve with their family. When they were taken back to prison, they get moved to a new prison called Vught. They manage to stay together through the move. When they got to Vught, they start organizing small church services and teaching the other prisoners about God. The prison got shut down so all of the prisenors were either moved or killed.
Corrie and Betsie were moved to a concentration camp in Germany, which was terrible, but they actually got lucky because most of the other prisoners were killed. Their new camp was called Ravensbruk. Here, they went through hell and back. They were tortured half to death, but they still managed to lead their secret worship services. Throughout their stay in Ravensbruk, Betsie’s health decreaced a ton. She became extremely sick and was put in the hospital in the camp. In the hospital, there was nothing that the doctors could do for her and she died. Corrie was devistated, but she continued to survive and teach about God.
Finally, the war was over and Corrie was free to go back home to Holland. A rich lady from holland gave Corrie money to build a rehabilitation center. She used a building that was used as a consentration camp during the war. She helped countless jews and war victems in the same building that other jews and war victems were killed and tortured in. So strange, yet so inspiring.