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The Hiding Place is an autobiography of Corrie ten Boom’s experience as a major kingpin in the Jewish Underground Railroad. The story starts off about the hundredth anniversary of the ten Boom watch shop. The family lives in Haarlem, Holland. The father, Casper, it’s very religious and generous. The family and their employees gather every morning to read from the Bible. The year in the beginning of the book was 1937, when Nazism was becoming a major problem. The Dutch...
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Cornelia Arnolda Johanna ten Boom was born on April 15, 1892, in Haarlem, Netherlands. For her whole life, she was referred to as “Corrie”. She was the youngest child in the family and took the job profession of a jeweller and watchmaker. She and her family were Calvinist Christians in a Dutch Reformed Church. Their faith motivated them in supporting those who were struggling in life, which they did by donating living essentials to poor people in the Netherlands. In...
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Corrie Ten Boom’s astounding life story; “The Hiding place” is an incredible story about her and her sister Betsie, being sent to concentration camps for hiding Jews in WWII. Despite enduring so much pain throughout this adventure, Corrie and her sister continuously worshipped God. Every day these two sisters had to convince each other, and themselves, that all this suffering would soon end, and they would soon be free from the “hell”, or the concentration camp that they had been...
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The Gestapo was a crucial component in Nazi repression and the Holocaust, they used ruthless methods on the people who disobeyed them, these methods have made them popular today. The people who disobeyed the Gestapo were horribly treated by the Gestapo. The activities that the Gestapo did were overly cruel, they didn't answer to any judicial or legal oversight, they did very unlawful things, and finally they had the power to where no one could stop them. The three main...
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