The Hiding Place Corrie Ten Boom Analysis

The book, The Hiding Place, is a biography on Corrie Ten Boom and her family’s struggles during the Holocaust. The book takes place before World War I through World War II. Corrie and her family lived in the Netherlands in the time of the Holocaust where they owned a build and repair shop for watches. She had two sisters named Betsie and Nollie, and one brother named Willem. Her father did most of the work with the watch shop, and her mother died when she was a little girl. In 1940 when the Nazis started invading the Netherlands, they would often find people praying in their shop because they were scared. The Ten Boom family begins taking in Jews and giving them a place to hide from the invading Nazis. Later on, the family was caught and arrested

The Hiding Place a story written with love and hope to share throughout the world was written by Corrie Ten Boom who was not a Jew. Corrie with the help of Betsie, her sister, and family helped hide Jews during the Holocaust. Corrie felt that she should help God’s people no matter who they were. Though Corrie felt she could never love these people like her sister she tried everything possible. “One thing in the shop I never learned to do as well as Betsie, and that was to care about each person who stepped through the door. Often when a customer entered I would slip out the rear door and up to Betsie in the kitchen. Betsie! Who is the woman with the Alpina lapel- watch on a blue velvet band-stout, around fifty?” (Corrie 54) Even though Corrie could never find a way to care for each person the way Betsie did she still managed to help every person who walk through the door. Soon the German police came to realize what her and her family was doing and arrested Corrie and her family. While in prison at first Corrie had felt God had abandoned them but it was her sister who made her realize that God never left them and his love never left them this was a trial to see how much they loved and truly cared about God. Out in the cold one day they undressed and are naked walking by guards who are laughing and staring at them both Corrie and Betsie so humiliated

“We must tell people, Corrie. We must tell them what we learned,” said Betsie. The Hiding Place, by Corrie ten Boom, is the biography of a woman in Holland during the Holocaust. The book starts out in 1937, in Haarlem, Holland. Corrie and her family were Christians who hid Jews from persecution by the German soldiers. Corrie was forced to make decisions and take actions all throughout different periods in her life. When her mother fell ill, she learned to care for someone who couldn’t do anything for her. During the time when the family was hiding the Jews, she was forced to be brave and strong. Finally, when her family was taken to the concentration camps, Corrie, with the help of her sister

The Hiding Place is the emotional and inspirational true life story of an ideal Christian woman who sacrifices her life to help others. Corrie has grown up in a very religious home, and when embroiled in a difficult and dangerous situation her family risks everything to help others. The book is based in the 1940’s, when Corrie’s home town is invaded by German officers who collect any Jewish civilians and escort them to Concentration Camps. Fear consumed the town, and the Ten Boom family reacts by helping the town’s Jewish families. Quickly, the news of this kind-hearted family spreads and more Jews come seeking help. Eventually the Ten Boom family is caught and sent to the Concentration camps themselves. While imprisoned in solitary confinement Corrie, has to learn to be strong and faithful to God. She dreams and wishes for freedom for not only herself but for the other innocent prisoners surrounding her. Corrie has to be strong for herself and for God. She stays devoted to her beliefs, and even through the hurt and anxiety, she never blames God, she believes it is all part of His plan and that everything happens for a reason.

World War II was a grave event in the twentieth century that affected millions. Two main concepts World War II is remembered for are the concentration camps and the marches. These marches and camps were deadly to many yet powerful to others. However, to most citizens near camps or marches, they were insignificant and often ignored. In The Book Thief, author Markus Zusak introduces marches and camps similar to Dachau to demonstrate how citizens of nearby communities were oblivious to the suffering in those camps during the Holocaust.

The Holocaust, yet another unpleasant time in history tainted with the blood and suffering of man. Human beings tortured, executed and starved for hatred and radical ideas. Yet with many tragedies there are survivors, those who refused to die on another man’s command. These victims showed enormous willpower, they overcame human degradation and tragedies that not only pushed their beliefs in god, but their trust in fellow people. It was people like Elie Wiesel author of “Night”, Eva Galler,Sima Gleichgevicht-Wasser, and Solomon Radasky that survived, whose’ mental and physical capabilities were pushed to limits that are difficult to conceive. Each individual experiences were different, but their survival tales not so far-reaching to where the fundamental themes of fear, family, religion and self-preservation played a part in surviving. Although some of these themes weren’t always so useful for survival.

The holocaust was a tragic time which involved the killing of Jews to create a ‘pure race’ in Germany. Jacob Boas analyzes the stories of five young Jewish children through the book “We Are Witnesses,” who were forced through the hardships of war. Through the perspectives of David Rubinowicz, Yitzhak Rudashevski, Moshe Flinker, Éva Heyman, and Anne Frank, the struggles of the five children are clear as they try to hold on to their ideals while still fighting for their lives. “We Are Witnesses,” by Jacob Boas adopts repetition and diction through the eyes of David Rubinowicz, imagery using Yitzhak Rudashevski, repetition and imagery via Moshe Flinker, repetition with Éva Heyman, and repetition and syntax by Anne Frank to brandish how Jewish

God’s laws are meant to be superior over all of us. There may be severe punishments if breaking one. In The Hiding Place, Corrie ten Boom wants to help the Jews, who were being persecuted by the Nazis. To hide them, she would have to break the Nazi’s laws and God’s laws. The question is… Is it acceptable to break God’s commandments when there is evil and hatred in the world? No or Yes?

“Introduction to the Holocaust.” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 27 Apr. 2017, www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005143. Accessed 11 May 2017.

Jewish Holocaust survivors enduring horrendous treatment of the Holocaust, and it impacted the aftermath of the event as well. Because of the emotional and physical trauma after liberation, Jewish Holocaust survivors struggled with rebuilding their lives and adapting to live a “normal life”.

Corrie ten Boom's 1971 book The Hiding Place told the story of an evangelical Christian family in Holland that was involved in Resistance work against the Nazi occupation, including the concealment of Jews from the Nazis. The Ten Boom family had always been sympathetic to Jews long before the rise of Hitler and the Nazi state, and regarded them as a Chosen People who would always have a special place in God's plans. They were arrested by the Gestapo in 1944, and Corrie's father, brother, sister and nephew all died at the hands of the Nazis, although they never found the hiding place of the Jews in their house. In Ravensbruck concentration camp, Corrie and her sister also vowed that they would travel the world as Christian missionaries after the war, describing how their faith in Christ sustained them even under the worst circumstances imaginable. Betsie died in the camp in December 1944, shortly before Corrie was released due to an administrative error, although she believed it was certainly a miracle and act of divine intervention that had saved her from death. She kept her promise, and spent the rest of her life traveling the world as an evangelical missionary, often associated with Billy Graham.

In An Interrupted Life and Letters From Westerbork, the diary entries of Etty Hillesum, a twenty-nine-year-old Dutch Jewish woman who died in Auschwitz are published. Hillesum’s letters show this young woman’s search for identity and a meaning to life. By reading Hillesum’s story, one is able to look deeper into the Christian stance on immigration, but more specifically, the Christian call to care for all people. In a Diary entry from December 18, 1942, Hillesum writes about leaving for Westerbork, a detention and transit camp in Hooghalen, northeastern Netherlands. Westerbork was a place where Romani and Dutch Jews were assembled for transport to Nazi extermination camps and concentration camps. In this particular letter, Hillesum writes about

The Holocaust is a very large topic with many subtopics within, which many people have never heard of. One in particular is the Hidden Children of the Holocaust. Like a majority of individuals, I never heard of this topic before, until I started my inquiry work. Hiding children during the holocaust was an effort to save thousands of children’s lives. The children were hidden in different ways, either with false identities, underground, and with or without their parents. The children with false identities were allowed to participate in everyday life activities, like attend school and socialize with children their age, which in the long run this lead to less emotional and mental issues. However, the children that were hidden and not allowed to leave their hiding spots often faced boredom, pain, and torment. Some children were capable of being hid with their parents while other children were not. Depending on the situation the child was in, depends on the effects it had on the child during this time. In this paper, I will be discussing works by two scholars, Natalia Aleksiun’s Gender and Daily Lives of Jews in Hiding in Eastern Galicia and Judy Mitchell’s Children of the Holocaust. Aleksiun’s article talks about the daily lives of Jews in hiding and also about how they prepared their hideouts. Aleksiun’s article mainly focuses on children that were hidden with their families. In Mitchell’s article, he focuses on the hidden children and gives examples/survivor stories on what it

Eighteen million Europeans went through the Nazi concentration camps. Eleven million of them died, almost half of them at Auschwitz alone.1 Concentration camps are a revolting and embarrassing part of the world’s history. There is no doubt that concentration camps are a dark and depressing topic. Despite this, it is a subject that needs to be brought out into the open. The world needs to be educated on the tragedies of the concentration camps to prevent the reoccurrence of the Holocaust. Hitler’s camps imprisoned, tortured, and killed millions of Jews for over five years. Life in the Nazi concentration camps was full of terror and death for its individual prisoners as well as the entire Jewish

In the Hiding Place written by Corrie Ten Boom, there is a disagreement on whether it is okay or not to break God’s Laws, even in the face of evil. Corrie’s sister, while hiding Jews, was asked by a Nazi if she had any Jews in her house, and she replied with an honest answer of yes. I think that it is not okay to break God’s Laws under any circumstance.