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mcboak 's review for:
The Hiding Place
by Corrie ten Boom
This is a true story of Corrie ten Boom and her family, who helped hide Jewish people and families during the Nazi occupation during World War II, specifically in Holland. The majority of the book takes place at her family's boarding house, which also served as their watch shop. There is a fair bit of exposition and setting up the reader to get to know the ten Boom family at the beginning of the book which I thought was a bit much at first, but as I look back, I think it was a good introduction. The ten Boom family was very religious and because of that, I thought this book would have very strong religious undertones. While they do talk of religion, reading the Bible, etc., I didn't feel overwhelmed by it. Faith was the main way that the ten Boom family was able to make it through such difficult times and find the willpower and strength to help so many people who were trying to escape the Nazis. It's nice to know that there were people like the ten Boom family who were genuine helpers. The world needs more of those.