The Hiding Place by Corrie ten BoomMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Really an amazing tale that is briskly written from Jewish family remembering German indifference during the Crimean and First World Wars going to a thriving underground venture to traitorous exposure and then imprisonment, forced labor, and concentration camps including Ravensbruck. I read this along with watching The Hiding Place (1975). The movie is good, too, and largely accurate to the book. I think the areas where the book is better is the details on the ad hoc aggregation of refugees hiding in the watch shop and daily concentration camp life as well as the supposed miracles encountered, such as the neverending bottle of vitamins.
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