The Hiding Place Corrie Ten Boom

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 more they got into his line of work, the more danger they were putting themselves into. They were hiding Jews in the Beje (the large house of the Ten Booms) and they eventually got caught. The whole Ten Boom family – father, Corrie and Betsie – had put their own lives on the line and because of this, they were placed in a concentration camp along with all the hundreds of Jews they had helped along the way. During the years they spent there, they watched many die and others get beaten. They, too, were abused and persecuted for all the good of helping others.

All of the characters were forced from their home sometime during this book. Josef, a German Jew during WW2 had to leave his home due to the violence brought by the Nazis. “Josef didn't want to leave. Germany was his home.” (6). Josef’s father was taken to a concentration camp and was released 6 months after but only if he left the country within 14 days. Josef knew it was unfair, that because he was Jewish that he must be punished for it. Later, Josef settled in France but the Nazis have begun to take over most parts of France. “One of Rachel Landau’s children would go free, one of her children would go into the camps”(291). The Germans find Josef, his mother, and Ruthie his sister and are asked for their papers which have a big stamped “J” on it for Jew. His mother tries to bribe the soldiers but they say it is only enough for one of her children to go free. Josef senses that this is the time to finally become a man and save his sister from the horrors inside of those camps. He sacrifices himself so Ruthie can escape the Nazis and is taken to the concentration camps with his mother. Josef and His mother, died in the camp and never got to see Ruthie again.

Corrie Ten Boom from The Hiding Place and Anne Frank From Anne Frank 's Diary were two of the of the many people that were living during the Holocaust period. The Holocaust which took place in the late 1930’s and throughout the 1940’s Adolf Hitler an anti-Jewish man came to power in Germany. During this Germany was in a great depression due to their loss of World War One. Hitler promised restoration and power and he was easily accepted. Once Adolf was in power he began to invade countries around them like Poland and Holland. Hitler began to send Jews away to camps. He then began to rampage around the countries capturing the Jews and sending them to the camps where we later found out how they brutally killed the Jews. Before some of the Jews were captured, they went into hiding. That’s where our two stories came from our first is The Hiding Place and the other is The Annex. Although these are not the only stories about Jews hiding from the Nazis these are some of the most extreme. While comparing Corrie and Anne their personality, experience, and final outcomes we see that there are similarities and difference.

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.

Last but not least the third reason Corrie should have hidden the helpless, desperate, and terrified Jews was because if the Nazi found them and sent them off to a concentration camp the ten Booms could bring hope to other prisoners. Because the ten Booms loved God they could bring the gospel to doubting prisoners. Corrie could deliver the much needed love into the concentration camps. The ten Boom could bring the comfort of a loving and caring God to the prisoners.

Many, many people suffered during the Holocaust war. The Jews in particular were in grave danger. The drama ‘Anne Frank’ outlines so many ways that this historical event caused a shift in the mood of the characters and their relationships. Before the Holocaust, Anne Frank was just an ordinary Jewish girl living in Germany. A German leader named Adolf Hitler developed a plan to destroy the Jews and to rule over the specific places where they lived. What Hitler did to these poor Jews, and the sheer terror they endured at the hands of this Nazi leader is purely unfathomable.

Corrie Ten Boom is the daughter of a popular watchmaker and christian living in Holland during the beginning of Hitler, the Nazis, and hatred against Jews. The Ten Boom’s, however, always do the right thing and help anyone in need. Before their mother died, their household was always full of poor neighbors needing food or tea or anything else they could provide. This kindness continues into the beginning of the Holocaust. Corrie begins to join an underground system, involved with helping and sheltering Jews. At first, she was just trying to get some to different places where they would be safe, however. Corrie got so involved that the watch shop, called the Beje. became the center. She had monthly deliveries of food ration card, new Jews would show up to her door almost weekly, and the rest of the people involved in the underground had a secret code or phone calls, revolving around watch-talk. Eventually, Corrie could not find a place or a man, so he ended up living with the Ten Booms. They ended building a secret room with an elaborate warning system installed. They had many Jews living in that room, but little did she know that the entire town knew of her work in the underground and o the Jews in her house. Corrie ended up being caught and taken to prison, along with her father and sister. Corrie kept her with all this time, which helped her make it through. Eventually, after finding out that her father has died in prison, Corrie and her sister get to see the rest of

A fellow “member” of the “Dutch Underground” warned the ten Boom family that if their house was ever to be searched by soldiers and they had Jews in their house, they’d be in trouble. For families living in the country this wasn’t much of a problem, but the ten Boom house (the Beje), was located on the main street of the city and around the corner from the German headquarters! Since the Beje also served as a pretty famous watch store, this could also be a problem because random people could come in during open store hours. To fix this problem, a man offered to build a “secret room” located somewhere in the Beje. This room is where the Jews would hide if the Beje had been broken in and searched through by the Germans. The man had built the “secret room” into the back of Corrie’s personal bedroom. When he was done, it was completely unnoticeable to the naked eye that there was a hidden room behind her bedroom wall. For months, the 7 Jews (Eusie, Jop, Henk, Leendert, Meta, Thea, and Mary) just slept in it.

During The Holocost and World war II there is a family that goes into hiding along with another family. A 13 year old girl, Anne Frank and her familly hides in a secret annex behind a bookcase in a warehouse. After two years in the warehouse gets a new owner who tells on the families that are living in the annex. At first they are all sent to a holding camp but soon after they are split up and sent to a work camp. Annes mom is sent to the gas chamber in which she dies at. Anne's sister become extrememly ill with the Typus diease and not long after Anne also gets sick from the same diease. During Anne's stay in the annex she writes in a diary. When her family is foumd it gets left behind and one of the people who helped hid the family kept it for her. Anne's father, the only surviver, reads her diary and publishes it. Her diary

Corrie Ten Boom exemplified the characteristics of a visionary leader through her inspirational motivation in the Dutch underground resistance against Nazi Germany. Corrie witnessed the Jewish oppression at the hands of the Nazis and rejected it (Straub, 1992). One night, a Jewish woman went to Corrie and asked for help and Corrie agreed. Soon, Corrie became an active part of the Dutch underground resistance and worked to save the Jews (Ten Boom, 2006). Here, Corrie used her gift of inspirational motivation to inspire and motivate others to join the resistance or support the effort by providing food ration cards, supplies, or safe passage for the Jews and resistance workers. She even had a hidden room built in her house to hide the Jews residing there (Straub, 1992; Ten Boom, 2006).

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During the devastating time of World War II, a Jewish teenage girl wrote a diary about the gruesome events she witnessed, this diary was named, Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank. Anne Frank lived in Holland and went into hiding when her sister, Margot, got a letter to go to a reception camp. The Franks faced terrifying moments during hiding. They witnessed war outside their window and stayed in the same house without even going outside for about two years.To add on, the Franks had to keep in mind how every day they could be arrested or even die. Sadly Anne and her family are arrested and are sent to Auschwitz, a concentration camp where she would later die. While in hiding, the Franks and the Van Daans, who were also in hiding with them,