The Hiding Place is an account of a woman in a Nazi concentration camp. You are taught a lesson on how to love others in horrible situations such as being beaten and being yelled at. You also get to know the suffering that the prisoners had to face and what it was like inside of the camp. You will also how the Jews hid from the Germans. Corrie Ten Boom’s autobiography shows what entering the Nazi prison, life in prison, and exiting the prison is like. Know to show you what it was like entering the prison. As Corrie laid her head on her bead, she had a dream of everyone running around in her house and a buzzer sounding, but this wasn’t a dream, this was real! She had made a buzzer so that when the Nazis were to check their house, they wouldn’t catch the Jews. so all of the Jews in the house (which was 4) were rushing into the little back room that they had made for this instance. They shoved them into chairs against the wall and waited until more people came, but no one else came. Then, they were escorted into a truck and carried to a prison. When …show more content…
First, there is more waiting. They ask you almost the same amount of questions, but she is eventually sent back to her home in Harlem. She finds out that all of her family is safe and sound and healthy. She tells her family the sad news about Betsie. Since then, Willem, a brother of Corrie, died of tuberculosis in December of 1946. Kik, Willem’s son, died at the concentration camp[ in 1944. “Well into Corries 80s, she continued her indefatigable travels in obedience to Betsie’s certainty that they must ‘tell people,’ working in sixty-one countries on both sides of the Iron Curtain,” telling them that “Jesus can turn a loss into glory.” In her last years, she was visited by friends in Orange County, California. She knew that she was soon going to her “real home” in Heaven. Cornelia Ten Boom died on her ninety-first birthday, April 15,