The Hiding Place
1971
- world war, 1939-1945, personal narratives, dutch
- ravensbrück (concentration camp)
- world war 2 1939-1945
- concentration camps
- personal narratives, dutch
- ravensbruc̈k (concentration camp)
- ravensbru ck (concentration camp)
- ten boom, corrie
- dutch personal narratives
- corrie ten boom
The story
The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom by Corrie ten Boom, John Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill (Goodreads Author) "At one time Corrie ten Boom would have laughed at the idea that there would ever be a story to tell. For the first fifty years of her life nothing at all out of the ordinary had ever happened to her. She was an old-maid watchmaker living contentedly with her spinster sister and their elderly father in the tiny Dutch house over their shop. Their uneventful days, as regulated as their own watches, revolved around their abiding love for one another. However, with the Nazi invasion and occupation of Holland, a story did ensue. Corrie ten Boom and her family became leaders in the Dutch Underground, hiding Jewish people in their home in a specially built room and aiding their escape from the Nazis. For their help, all but Corrie found death in a concentration camp. The Hiding Place is their story. (less)" Good readers review.
What it’s like
Quiet, close-range prose in a plain, devotional voice, written by a woman recounting her own life with a watchmaker's precision about small domestic detail. The early chapters breathe with the warmth of a tiled Haarlem house: the tick of clocks in the shop, kettle steam, the sisters' patient routines, the smell of oil and brass. The mood shifts gradually from cozy to taut as the occupation tightens, and the hidden room behind a closet wall becomes a place of held breath and whispered signals. Its pacing is steady and episodic rather than suspenseful, and its emotional register is faith-centred, grieving and quietly stubborn, with a family's bond at the center. The later section in Ravensbrück is harrowing: the barracks, hunger, lice, cruelty and loss are described without gore but with unsparing specificity, so the violence is real and recurrent though rarely graphic. It suits a rainy Sunday read, a slow evening, or a reader who wants sincere, unhurried testimony rather than thriller momentum. It is for readers drawn to Christian witness narratives and to first-person accounts of resistance and survival who can carry sustained grief.
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