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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 .
Betsie’s brother Willem ten Boom was a minister, [4] and the ten Boom sisters (Betsie, Nollie, and Corrie) had been active in charitable work before the war. [5] During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands , the family began to hide numerous Jews and resisters in their home and built a secret room to protect them.
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[1] In the 1980s, George performed in the one-act, one-woman play Rachel, Woman of Masada, portraying a grandmother who survived a mass suicide at the ancient Masada fortress in Israel. [5] 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.
Casper ten Boom (18 May 1859 – 9 March 1944) was a Dutch Christian who helped many Jews and resisters escape the Nazis during the Holocaust of World War II.He is the father of Betsie and Corrie ten Boom, who also aided the Jews and were sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp, where Betsie died.