The Hiding Place
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The Hiding Place
| Author | Corrie ten Boom |
|---|---|
| Published | 1971 |
| Pages | 241 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Corrie ten Boom’s memoir of the secret room behind a false wall in her Haarlem home, where her family hid Jews and resistance workers during the German occupation — and of the arrest, the camps, and her sister Betsie’s death at Ravensbrück. Explicitly a religious memoir: the second half is as much about forgiveness as about the camp. |
The Hiding Place
Where I heard about it
- Dissident Teacher — on A Library to Build Great Americans, a 468-title curriculum published on Substack in December 2025, in the Ages 13–99+ band under Nonfiction — the list’s entry on ordinary people under occupation, and the only one of its Second World War titles written from the civilian side.
About this edition
Written with John and Elizabeth Sherrill. The family ran a watch shop; they were betrayed and arrested in February 1944, her father died within days of imprisonment, and she and Betsie were sent to Scheveningen, Vught and finally Ravensbrück. Ten Boom was released at the end of 1944, apparently by a clerical error.
Connections
- A Library to Build Great Americans — the list this came from.
- Corrie ten Boom — the author, a Dutch watchmaker who spent the rest of her life speaking about it.
- World War II — the occupation of the Netherlands and the camps.
- Christianity — the frame the whole book is written inside.
- Faith — tested rather than described, and the frame in which she treats the courage the book records: a decision made repeatedly, in a house, about strangers.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.