This story has to be the best story I have ever read. It's the kind of story that grabs you. It was amazing to see how God works in people's lives. When I started reading it, I became interested and couldn't stop reading until I was done.

The story takes place during world War 2, and it is about two wonen named Corrie Ten Boom and Betsie. They were Christian wonen and loved God with all their hearts. At this particular time, Hitleer was persecuting the Jews because he thought they were a pest to the human race.

During World War 2, Corrie took Jews into her house and let them stay there. She had many ways of hiding them from the Nazi guards. She would hide the Jews in the walls whenever the guards came near the house. jAt the risk of her life and her family's lives, would hide them because they felt it was the right thing to do. As the story goes on, she gets caught hiding some Jewish people in her house, and both she and her sister are shipped to a concentration camp. While she was there, she saw many horrors. It was amazing what the guards would do to the jewish people. The Nazis were very cruel to Corrie and her sister, and put them through many hardships. It was only by God's grace that they made it out in good shape. God never left them even through all the terrible times they experienced.

This is an absolutely extraordinary book. Never have I read a book in which the spiritual beauty of the author so resonated throughout the story. The purity of heart that manifests itself in this inspiring saga of a heroic, Dutch family in Nazi occupied Holland during World War II is stunningly beautiful.

This is the true story of the Ten Boom family who, during the Nazi occupation of The Netherlands, upon seeing what was happening to their jewish neighbors and friends, asked themselves this age old question "If not us,...who; if not now, when?" They answered it, ultimately, at great cost.

The Ten Booms were devoutly Christian and lived a simple life. The patriarch of the family ran a watch shop that had been in his family for a century. Some of the family members, the author among them, worked there, selling and repairing clocks and watches. They also lived in the house in which the shop was located.

When the Nazis occupied their country, the reality of what it meant slowly dawned upon them, as they saw the treatment given to their fellow Dutch citizens of the jewish faith. Moved by their plight, the author at the age of fifty, together with other members of her family, including their father who was nearly eighty, became active in the Dutch underground.

When it became clear to the Ten Booms that jews were being targeted for deportation and death, they had a false wall constructed in the author's bedroom, thereby creating a secret room. There, they would hide the terrified jews who were staying with them, in the event of a Nazi raid upon their home.

Eventually denounced by someone to the Nazis, the Ten Booms were arrested and their home raided and torn apart by the Gestapo, in their search for the jews they believed to be hiding there. At the time of the raid, the Ten Boom home was filled to capacity with jews in hiding. So well concealed was the hidden room that had been created by the erection of the false wall, that these poor, terrified jews managed to escape detection.

The Ten Boom family did not fare so well. It was upon their arrest that they learned first hand of man's inhumanity to man, and their faith was put to a test that they had never dreamt possible. It was faith, however, that sustained the author in what was to be her hour of darkest despair. To find out what happened to the Ten Booms, read this book. It is the story of an incredible family, who had the courage to put their convictions to the test.

This book is a masterpiece. The reader is sure to be captivated by the goodness and spiritual beauty contained within its pages.

I first picked up "The Hiding Place" in 1989, following the death of my brother. I read it from cover to cover in one evening, then read it again in the next two days. "The Hiding Place" is not only a thrilling tale, set in the midst of war torn, Nazi occupied Holland, it is a spiritual journey of one woman and one family. You will feel as if you know Corrie, as if you are visiting with her in your own home. You'll feel every indignity she suffered and rejoice with every triumph. Your heart will break for her and her sister Betsie and your spirit will sing with them also. If you want to read a book that will change your life forever then you must read "The Hiding Place". If I was able to choose only three books to cherish for the remainder of my life on earth I would choose the Bible, "Hinds Feet on High Places" by Hannah Hurnard and Corrie Ten Boom's "The Hiding Place". I cannot wait to meet you in heaven Corrie.