Annotated Bibliography: The Hiding Place.
Corrie Ten Boom. encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/corrie-ten-boom. Accessed 12 Feb. 2024. Corrie Ten Boom was known for her efforts to hide Jews during the German occupation in the Netherlands. She was born April 15, 1892, and was the youngest of four. She was able to receive recognition for her efforts by the Yad Vashem Remembrance Authority, being forever remembered as one of the Righteous Among the Nations in December of 1967. Her application and faith in the words of the Bible led her to help those who were being persecuted. Because of this she along with her family had to endure imprisonment, grief of losing loved ones, and the harsh and inhuman treatment of different concentration camps. …show more content…
Many of her family members, along with herself, were very close friends with many different Jews and strived to improve the interactions and relations of the Christian and Jewish religions. Corrie, along with her father and sister Betsie shortly after World War Two started, decided to become involved in the efforts to help the many Jews that were being persecuted by allowing their home to become a safehaven to hide them. Under the guise of her father's watchmaking shop, Corrie worked closely with many other resistance workers who were vital in procuring ration books and building a place for Jews to hide. On February 28, 1944 when the Gestapo raided the Ten Boom house around 30 people were arrested, among them being Corrie, her father, her brother and sisters, and resistance workers. Despite the large number of arrests, the people hiding in the small room were not found by the police that day and were later transported to a safer location. After a short time in police custody, all but Corrie, Bettsie and her father were released. Sadly, mere days after his arrest, Corrie’s …show more content…
The book followed Corrie-Ten Boom living in the Netherlands and her involvement in the Dutch resistance movement during World War Two. Corrie, believing in the Bible, knew what Hitler was doing was wrong and from the start wanted to help as much as she could. She soon joined the resistance effort, helping anyway that was suitable. She was seen as the head of the effort in regards to her family and was incredibly vital to the success that her family was able to achieve. You follow Corrie through many different and hard experiences, her arrest, different concentration camp experiences, learning of her fathers death and learning to forgive others for what they have done. Throughout the entire novel, her perspective on life and what happened to her was thought provoking. She tried her best throughout everything she went through to follow the teachings of the Bible, she put a large amount of emphasis on trying to forgive. She references her sister Betsie often because of how she admired her for forgiveness. She lived a long life that was by no means perfect and this book follows the highs and the lows that she faced and even within the lows she was able to overcome the
Corrie Ten Boom. encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/corrie-ten-boom. Accessed 12 Feb. 2024. Corrie Ten Boom was known for her efforts to hide Jews during the German occupation in the Netherlands. She was born April 15, 1892, and was the youngest of four. She was able to receive recognition for her efforts by the Yad Vashem Remembrance Authority, being forever remembered as one of the Righteous Among the Nations in December of 1967. Her application and faith in the words of the Bible led her to help those who were being persecuted. Because of this she along with her family had to endure imprisonment, grief of losing loved ones, and the harsh and inhuman treatment of different concentration camps. …show more content…
Many of her family members, along with herself, were very close friends with many different Jews and strived to improve the interactions and relations of the Christian and Jewish religions. Corrie, along with her father and sister Betsie shortly after World War Two started, decided to become involved in the efforts to help the many Jews that were being persecuted by allowing their home to become a safehaven to hide them. Under the guise of her father's watchmaking shop, Corrie worked closely with many other resistance workers who were vital in procuring ration books and building a place for Jews to hide. On February 28, 1944 when the Gestapo raided the Ten Boom house around 30 people were arrested, among them being Corrie, her father, her brother and sisters, and resistance workers. Despite the large number of arrests, the people hiding in the small room were not found by the police that day and were later transported to a safer location. After a short time in police custody, all but Corrie, Bettsie and her father were released. Sadly, mere days after his arrest, Corrie’s …show more content…
The book followed Corrie-Ten Boom living in the Netherlands and her involvement in the Dutch resistance movement during World War Two. Corrie, believing in the Bible, knew what Hitler was doing was wrong and from the start wanted to help as much as she could. She soon joined the resistance effort, helping anyway that was suitable. She was seen as the head of the effort in regards to her family and was incredibly vital to the success that her family was able to achieve. You follow Corrie through many different and hard experiences, her arrest, different concentration camp experiences, learning of her fathers death and learning to forgive others for what they have done. Throughout the entire novel, her perspective on life and what happened to her was thought provoking. She tried her best throughout everything she went through to follow the teachings of the Bible, she put a large amount of emphasis on trying to forgive. She references her sister Betsie often because of how she admired her for forgiveness. She lived a long life that was by no means perfect and this book follows the highs and the lows that she faced and even within the lows she was able to overcome the