They saw local people as they marched, but only the children could look at them. The adults lowered their eyes. Finally, they came to a camp with a smokestack emitting a gray vapor into the blue sky. Just inside the wall of the camp, they rushed for a row of waist-high spigots trying to wash away the stench of the boxcar. But the guards beat them and forced them away from the water and marched them to a tent under which lay straw that looked comfortable and soft.
The women sank down, and then immediately jumped to their feet again for the straw was crawling with lice. But how could one individual stand up to the powerful forces of concentrated evil? In this, she looked to Willem. As a pastor in the Dutch Reformed Church, Willem operated a nursing home in the nearby town of Hilversum. Just as he had worked to help persecuted Jews escape Nazi Germany, now he was using the nursing home to hide Dutch Jews who faced the threat of arrest and deportation.
He was using the nursing home as a temporary hiding place, where fugitive Jews could wait until they found a more permanent safehouse out in the countryside, where there were fewer occupying troops. The ten Boom family watched as the Germans looted and destroyed the shop, thankfully while its occupants were absent. Corrie and the family made the This is the best summary of The Hiding Place I've ever read. I learned all the main points in just 20 minutes. Corrie knew that her activities were dangerous, and that she faced severe punishment—even death—at the hands of the Nazis if caught.
She had been forced to lie in service of her work. But Casper reminded her that the lies that crossed her lips were spoken with love—the love that he had always told her was the greatest and most powerful force in the universe. And she was prepared to face death in order to show that love, just as Christ had on the cross—for, in sacrificing herself, there could be no greater act of love.
But still, it was impossible not to think about the enormous risks she and her circle were running by this time.
In early , the hiding place to which the Resistance had sent Harry de Vries after his brief sojourn at the Beje was discovered by the Gestapo. In the ensuing raid, Harry was rounded up and taken to the police station in Amsterdam.
Corrie did manage to see him one final time before he was transported to Amsterdam and from there, most likely out of the country to a concentration camp.
The police officer Rolf who had spotted Fred Koonstra delivering ration cards at the Beje the previous summer arranged this meeting, She was also horrified to discover that the Gestapo had extensive knowledge about the workings of her operation and even knew about her warning signal. In the course of their ransacking, the officers tore the walls of the Beje apart with sledgehammers in their search for the hiding Jews while Corrie and Betsie sat and listened, bloodied and helpless.
Although the six fugitives were not discovered during the course of the raid, the arresting officer vowed to Corrie that he would post a permanent guard at the Beje to wait until the six emerged from wherever they were hiding.
After hours of brutality at the hands of the Gestapo, the ten Booms—Corrie, Betsie, and Casper, in addition to Willem, Nollie, and Peter—were loaded into a van and hauled off to the local Haarlem police station. On the night of the German invasion in , Corrie had had an awful premonition of her family being carted away through the streets of Haarlem on their way to an unknown and terrifying destination—now, this dark vision was being fulfilled. They were ushered into a quarantine compound just outside the camp, languishing in this holding area for two weeks before being processed for admission into the main camp.
The inmates from the main camp told them that this meant that the ten Boom sisters were being processed for release! These hopes were soon dashed, however, when they arrived at the administration building. They were not being released, but merely transferred to the main camp, where fresh horrors awaited them. They arrived in a yard flanked by concrete buildings.
There, they were told by a veteran inmate what the function of these buildings was: torture centers for recalcitrant inmates who failed to obey camp rules.
If they stepped out of line, Corrie and Betsie would be taken to one of these buildings, be stuffed into a room the size of a gym locker, have their hands bound above their head, and be left to wait in this condition indefinitely. She saw the goodness—or potential for goodness—even in the concentration camp guards. She would not seek Only years later did Corrie learn that her release had been the result of a clerical error—the rest of the women at the hospital in Ravensbruck were murdered in the gas chambers a mere week after Corrie left the camp.
On her train journey, Corrie saw the devastation that war had wrought on Germany. The towns and countryside lay in bombed-out ruins. The Nazi menace, and the global war it had provoked, had wrought unimaginable physical destruction on Europe. After making her way to Berlin, she boarded another train bound west, for Holland.
During the random stops in bombed-out rail stations, Corrie would sleep in deserted cafes and waiting rooms. At last, her train made its way across the border into Holland. The train only took her as far as the Dutch border town of Groningen. When she got off the train, she had nowhere to go.
With her remaining strength, Corrie limped to a hospital, where a kindly nurse took her in. This video is also available at sermonindex. Language Clarence Jones: Mr. Studd: No Retreat David Livingstone. World War II. The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom. Tags: The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom Free download, epub, docs, New York Times, ppt, audio books, Bloomberg, NYT, books to read, good books to read, cheap books, good books, online books, books online, book reviews, read booksonline, books to read online, online library, greatbooks to read, best books.
The idea for a book about the life of the ten booms began when Shirley was researching the book The Divine Trafficker about ten other Boom Dutchmen, Andrew van der Beagle. Corrie ten Boom and his family became.
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