Hiding Place

Bernadette Dunne · Corrie ten Boom

Feb 2009 · Christian Audio

About this audiobook

The amazing story of Corrie ten Boom, a heroine of the Dutch Resistance who helped Jews escape from the Nazis and became one of the most remarkable evangelists of the 20th century, is told in her classic memoir, now retold for a new generation.

Ratings and reviews

well-written account of one of millions of lives torn apart by the horrors and evil of wwii. black lice, jaundice, gangrene, starvation, beatings and bitter cold. i find it impossible to forgive those who allowed it to happen and i wasnt there. So amazed at her and her family's strength. To shake that man's hand, would have taken more for me than it would to bear the suffering and humiliation he caused.

I have read this book several times. It really enthralled me. Life is hard. But if I compare my life to what Corrie Ten Boom went through, it's not hard at all. She had a strong faith in God, and a close relationship with Jesus, and that got her through her experience. I re-read it from time to time to help remind myself that my life is really, very good, and that I need to continue to build my relationship with Jesus every day as well. It will get me through hard times; as it did Corrie.

This book communicates so well the power of an all loving and all powerful Creator God, who loves His enemies (all of us) as He was willfully hung on a cross for our guilt. The Ten Boom family models what it looks like to obey God and love our enemies as Jesus does.

About the author

Corrie ten Boom was a writer and historian. She was born in the Netherlands in 1892. In February of 1944, an informer turned the ten Boom family in to the Gestapo for hiding Jews in their watch and clock shop. Six family members and 30 friends were arrested. Casper, Betsie, and Christiaan ten Boom died as prisoners. Because of a clerical error, Corrie Ten Boom was released, one week before all the women her age were killed. ten Boom went on to tell her message of survival for the next 32 years in countries throughout the world. Her story became both a book and a movie titled The Hiding Place. Ten Boom died on April 15, 1983.