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The Hiding Place is an autobiographical book written by Corrie ten Boom with John and Elizabeth Sherrill. It was published in 1971. The Sherrills came up with the idea for The Hiding Place while doing research for another book of theirs called God's Smuggler. At the time, ten Boom was already in her mid-70s.
The Hiding Place was the debut novel of British writer Trezza Azzopardi. [1] [2] It tells the story of the six daughters of a Maltese family growing up in Cardiff through the eyes of the youngest, Dolores Gauci. She describes her childhood life. The Hiding Place was shortlisted for the 2000 Booker Prize and won the 2001 Geoffrey Faber Memorial ...
Cornelia Arnolda Johanna "Corrie" ten Boom (15 April 1892 [1] – 15 April 1983) was a Dutch watchmaker and later a Christian writer and public speaker, who worked with her father, Casper ten Boom, her sister Betsie ten Boom and other family members to help many Jewish people escape from the Nazis during the Holocaust in World War II by hiding them in her home.
Azzopardi's novel The Hiding Place (2000), is about Maltese immigrants living in the 1960s. Unusually for a first novel, it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2000. [ 3 ] It also won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize .
The six Jews in hiding at the house were not discovered and all survived, with the help of other Resistance workers. [6] Casper ten Boom became ill and died ten days later at the prison. Willem, Nollie, and a nephew were released. In June 1944, Betsie ten Boom and her sister Corrie were sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp. Her strong faith ...
The Hiding Place, 1959 British novel by Robert Shaw; The Hiding Place, 1971 memoir by Corrie ten Boom, who hid Dutch Jews during WWII; Hiding Place (Wideman novel), 1981 middle volume of "Homewood Trilogy" by American John Edgar Wideman; The Hiding Place (Azzopardi novel), 2000 Welsh Booker Prize shortlist
Roger (Richard Rankin) cannot maintain a poker face, so Buck naturally wants to know what he is hiding. Roger spills that Buck’s mother is a time traveler, someone he has already met. “You ...
On screen, George (billed as Jeannette Clift) [6] was best known for her role as Corrie ten Boom in the 1975 film, The Hiding Place. The film recounted the real-life story of Corrie ten Boom, a Dutch Christian woman who hid and rescued Jews from the Nazis during the German occupation of the Netherlands .