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The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom is the story about the life of a woman in Holland
during the German Nazi invasion and holocaust. Miss. Ten Boom tells about her childhood,
helping people escape through the anti-Nazi underground, her arrest and imprisonment, and
her release.
As a child Miss. Ten Boom grew up in their family's watch shop with her mother, father,
sisters, Nollie and Betsie, brother, Willem, and aunts, Tante Jan, Tante Anna, and Tante
Bep. Her close-knit family was a very important part of her life. They worked together to
keep up the house and the shop. People would always be at their house to visit, needing a
place to stay, or just to hear Father read the Bible. Through her brother she met Karel,
with whom she fell in love. He was a schooled man, very intelligent and cunning. Though
he also had a love for Corrie, he would never court her, let alone marry her. His family
arranged his marriage with a woman that had a large dowry. The rejection hurt Corrie at
that young age but was soon forgotten and placed behind her.
Her family was always known for helping people less fortunate. In a person's time of
need, her mother always took food and a warm smile to help. Whenever a child was
homeless, they could always go to the Beje for shelter. It was not a surprise, then, when
Corrie and the rest of her family got involved with the anti-Nazi underground. She had
been noticing that everything in her little town was changing. There were police
stationed everywhere and a curfew was being set. The Germans were beginning to take
control. Corrie had found out from her brother, Willem, that there were Jewish people
needing a place to stay. The family decided to open the Beje to take people in, mostly
until they found them a new home. Corrie found a man inside the German government to get
food ration cards so...
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