A Family's Experience with the Nazis in The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom

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The Hiding Place is about a girl named Corrie goes through an experience at the time of world war two, when the Nazis were capturing the Jews, and sending them to concentration camps. The father, Casper, showed that no matter what is happening, that you can still show kindness. Cornelia, the mother, was always trying to make people happy, she also would get to know everyone. It should always be a your mind to help, serve, and to be a kind person.

KINDNESS

Casper was a very religious man, every morning he and his family would read scriptures together; he wanted to live with God after death. He welcomed other people in his home whenever he saw that they were in need. When his entire family was arrested, the Gestapo chief offered to release Casper: “I’d like to send you home old fellow. I’ll take your word that you won’t cause any more trouble.”(Ten Boom 151) Casper would never see his family again; they would be tortured in prison while he rested safely at home. Casper easily answered the temptation. “If I go home today,” he said evenly and clearly, “tomorrow I will open my door again to any man in need who knocks.”(Ibid) This shows how much the father cares for other people, and we showed follow his example. At the beginning of the book they, Casper’s family, was holding a party at there house. One man that was at the party was looking at the prices of the watches, so he could lower his own watch prices.

“Can’t you see what he’s doing...He’s finding out how much we’re charging so he can undersell us...And Father’s face would light up with a kind of pleasant surprise...But Corrie, people will save money when they buy from him...I wonder how he does that.”(Ten Boom, 28)

Casper was a ve...

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...know-to tell us that this too is in His hands”(Ten Boom, 80)

God already knows what is going to happen, he has it all planned out. So whatever we do we need to stay with God, and obey His words. Sometimes it is very hard to forgive others, definitely if they kept you in a torture camp;

“His hand thrust out to shake mine. And I, who had preached so often to the people in Bloemendaal the need to forgive, kept my hand at my side. Even as angry, vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them. Jesus Christ had died for this man; was I going to ask for more? Lord Jesus, I prayed, forgive me and help me to forgive him. I tried to smile, I struggled to raise my hand. I could not.”(Ten Boom, 247)
The Lord was so gracious that he died for us so that we can repent, and we should use that gift for granted.

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