The Hiding Place By Corrie Ten Boom Essay

The second World War was one of the most significant events during the twentieth century, did you know that? The war “brought about major leaps in technology and laid the groundwork that permitted post-war social changes including the end of European colonialism, the civil rights movement in the United States, and the modern women’s rights movement, as well as the programs for exploring outer space,” (World War II 1). During the second world war, times were also tough, food was abundant, jobs were rare, family was the only thing a person had in those days. Days during World War II were days that a person did not want to go through alone. As a child things were easier, a child would play games of war and think it was fun but war was not fun, it was something to be scared about and scared of. …show more content…
During this time, one would walk down the street and see poverty amongst the streets and people begging for a home to stay in and one would see many people being discriminated. Families lost many things such as other family members, valuables or even maybe their homes. In the book The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom, Corrie had to sacrifice various amounts of things for herself and most importantly her family. Corrie sacrificed her life as a safe woman to become a brave women that hid countless Jews, she sacrificed her free life to become a woman that saved the lives of many scared, hopeless jews that did not have homes and were hoping not to get caught by nazi soldiers and be taken to concentration camps to be killed