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Summary: Wonderful!
Review: This is one of the best about this subject. It is right up there with The Hidden Children, Growing Up In The Holocaust, Alicia:My Story, and a host of others. It is wonderful what these individuals did for persecuted peoples. This woman's story kept me rivited and I found I couldn't leave it until every word was read!
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Summary: An Inspiring Book
Review: I bought "The Hiding Place" for my son. It is on his required summer reading list. After reading a few pages myself, I could put it down. A very compelling account of the hatred and hardship that spread though Europe during WWII. But though all of the suffering, the ten Boom family strengthen their faith and showed love for both the persecuted and the persecutors. I hope my son also finds this story to be inspiring.
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Summary: This book is truly an inspiration.
Review: The Hiding Place is the true story of ordinary people who became heroes and heroines simply by maintaining the courage of their convictions. They did not let fear of the Nazis prevent them from doing what they knew to be the right thing - helping other human beings. This book also paints a lifelike picture of Haarlem, Holland, before, during, and after the invasion by Germany during World War II. I enjoyed reading about this wonderful family as they lived before the invasion. "The Hiding Place" is very well written, with vivid characters that come alive for the reader. I wish this book was required reading in schools, to show young people that true heroism is about more than shooting baskets or becoming a movie star. I hope the courage of the ten Boom family will remind us all in the future that we are not helpless to resist evil.
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Summary: A Must Read Book
Review: This is an amazing book. I truly feel bad for people who did not understand it's depth. Many said it was boring until it came to the killing. There is so much wrong with that statement, I don't know where to begin! This was a TRUE story, about a REAL person, who suffered tremendous amounts of pain, that we could not even imagine. She did not complain like i KNOW most of us would. She kept her tremendous faith in God and NEVER EVER gave up, no matter what the situation was. One can only imagine the pain she went through recapping the story, let alone living it. The amazing faith displayed in the book makes you wonder, Could I keep such a faith during such an awful time? I highly recomend this book to everyone. It makes you think about your life and whether you are living it for the right reason.
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Summary: There's only one problem with this book...
Review: Once you step into Corrie's world and start reading this book, you can not stop. I picked up the book and began to read it one day and then I could hardly set it down when it was time to go to work! It is a treasure of a book and you'll probably read it a couple of times to mine all the jewels therein. After reading "The Hiding Place"...I couldn't stop there. Since that time, a few years ago, I've read over a dozen of Corrie's books and have yet to be disappointed in any one of them. In fact, I named my youngest daughter after this remarkable woman. That's what I think of Corrie ten Boom. I have a photo of her taken shortly before she passed and you can see that her eyes just shined with love. Thanks be to God that she put her hard-learned lessons and her love of God on record for all mankind.
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Summary: No Book Outside The Bible Has Had Such A Profound Affect
Review: This book is phenomenal! I saw the movie as a young child with my parents. I still always wanted to read the book. When I finally sat down with it, I was moved to tears. The story of Corrie and Betsie and the deep devotion they had to God along with their desire to live selflessly challenged me. I have NEVER been the same after reading this book. It changed the reason I do things and the way I do them.
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Summary: The Hiding Place Review
Review: The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom is a wonderful book. It is full of suspense, and will keep you on the edge of your seat at every moment. Corrie ten Boom was arrested for hiding Jews in her home during World War II. She and her sister were taken to concentration camps as punishment. Corrie tried to help anyone she could at anytime she could even when she was struggling herself. Along with everything that happened to her, she prayed and trusted in God and never gave up hope.
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Summary: It truly does shine with the glory of God!
Review: This book was fantastic! It was sad, heartwarming, exciting, joyous, and ultimately satisfying to read. Corrie was so honest about everything, even about her struggles with God and her faith. I felt so grateful and close to her by the time I was finished reading it. It also made me think about the way i live as a Christian today, and the way i long to live as a Christian: unselfish, full of love, and close to God, the way Corrie and the entire Ten Boom family chose to live. This book was so inspiring, and it really showed me the way God works miracles in ordinary people.
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Summary: Excellent and interesting
Review: A story of a family's experience as the Nazi's overrun their country... going through Nazi occupation...their decision as Christians to hide Jews from the Nazi's and their eventual capture and time in a concentration camp. It is interesting, sad, and encouraging all at once.
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Summary: A milder account
Review: Okay, so maybe it isn't the most riveting book on the planet, and maybe the writing isn't all that great, and maybe the foreshadowing is a little much, but give me a break. Any survivor's account of the holocaust is worth your time. The more we understand, the better people we are, and the more we honor those who have taken the time to share their pain with us. I first read this book as a school assignment, and have re-read it serveral times since, just because of the respect I have for Ms. Ten Boom. And those of you who commented on the horrors of life in prison camps...if this is the only Holocaust book you have read, you have no idea. Hiding Place is very, very mild compared to most of the others. For a real understanding, try visiting Auschwitz yourself...I have, and I will forever be changed by the experience. One more thing...I definitely recommend Jane Yolen's Briar Rose, not a true account, but a moving story nonetheless.
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