The Hiding Place Corrie Ten Boom Summary

The Hiding Place The title of this book is The Hiding Place. The author of The Hiding Place is Corrie Ten Boom. The Hiding Place was published by Bantam Books. There are 241 pages in The Hiding Place. The genre of The Hiding Place is a biography. The setting of this story is in Haarlem, Holland, in the Beje and the prisons such as Scheveningen, Vught and Ravensbruck. The setting is integral because it has specific time and dates. The main characters are Corrie, Betsie, and Casper. Corrie is round and dynamic and she helps Jews so they won’t be caught so she hides them in the Beje and she has trouble praying for the Germans. Betsie is round and static and she is sick but still tries her best to preach and she prays for the Germans. Casper is round and static and tries to help the Jews even if they endanger him. The main conflict of this story is that the Nazis are invading Holland and the Jews are being killed, but the Boom family helps them by hiding them in the Beje
It is in the time of war and the Jews are being killed and tortured by the Nazis. The Boom family feels pity for them so they try to hide the Jews in the Beje. Jews come to live in their house and they made a hiding place for the Jews where they could hide if there were Germans coming to their house. Their house became a part of a community where the people would pray and sing.
Eventually they were found out for hiding Jews so the Boom family was taken to jail where they had to move to Scheveningen. There Corrie became ill so she went to solitary prison cell and she was in the point of giving up but God still helped her in the times of need. Then Corrie and Betsie both went to Vught where Corrie was given the 4 gospels by the nurse in the hospital and she was very grateful for she was longing for reading the Bible for a long