"The Hiding Place" is about Corrie ten Boom, her family, and how they helped the Jews in Holland when Germany invaded Holland in World War II. The main characters are Corrie, her older sisters Betsie and Nollie, her older brother Willem, and their father, Casper ten Boom, commonly referred to as Opa. The book starts out in January of 1937, in Haarlem, Holland. When Germany invaded Holland during the beginning of World War II, the Jews …showed first 75 words of 914 total…

…showed last 75 words of 914 total…story of what she had learned, and through it led numerous people to Christ. In her entire life and in this book, Corrie ten Boom expressed so many character traits, including integrity, kindness, empathy, endurance, but the greatest of all was her courageousness. She didn't care what happened to her, as long as she could get God's chosen people safe. She feared not for her life but for others. She was an immensely courageous woman.