In My Father's House: The Years Before the Hiding Place Paperback – Special Edition, April 1, 2011

I feel like I got to know many more dimensions of Corrie ten Boom by reading this book about how everything started for her. What an inspiration she remains to be through her writings!

Corrie Ten Boom's In My Father's House is one of my all-time favorite books. If you've read The Hiding Place, you may have wondered about the Ten Boom family and how Corrie was able to endure all that she witnessed and experienced in the Holocaust. How did this family have the strength to oppose the Nazis by helping Jews to escape and providing places for them to hide?I think this book answers that question. It delves into the home life of the Ten Boom family, and the reader is given a closer view into their household. One of the people that struck me the most was Corrie's father, Casper. Having read multiple books by Corrie, In My Father's House remains one of my favorites and Casper ten Boom is one of my favorite people that has ever lived. I find him quite extraordinary and his Christian example to be very close to what God truly intends in how we live and treat others. He was an extraordinary and excellent person, and the way he raised his children prepared them for what they were going to endure and what most of them did not survive. Even though not all of them lived through it, they still triumphed.I absolutely love this book. I can't stress that enough. Every time I come across a copy in a used bookstore, I buy it and pass it on to share the wisdom of a heroic woman and the family that shone so brightly during WWII. This one comes highly recommended!

Learned some much practical Christian wisdom! A helpful guide for thinking through how to become more like this wonderful woman who was very much like her wonderful Lord and what God used to make her so.

Having read Corrie ten Boom’s spellbinding story of life during the Holocaust, and her family’s role in the resistance, I greatly enjoyed this book. Fascinating info about her life growing up and what gave her the desire and the strength to risk her life for total strangers, and survive a terrible concentration camp, which took the life of her dear sister. She was 50 years old, her sister about 53, and their father in his 80s, when they started hiding Jews in their home, eventually developing a network of 80 underground workers! It did not just happen for no reason, by chance. God worked in their lives for 50 years, training them in their faith, leading them into many activities helping others, everything from raising foster children, to teaching disabled children, starting the Girl Guide program in Holland (comparable to the Girl Scouts) and many other activities. They were used to helping others, being of service. Then in their 50s, got called into an unbelievable mission! Highly recommend this book!!

Corrie ten Boom paints a picture of Holland in the 1930s using her childhood memories of her family and life in Amsterdam before Nazi occupation. It’s a fascinating portrait, well worth reading.

I bough this for my eleven year old child. Excellent book!

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This book was excellent and it came quickly and in perfect condition! I finished the book last night although I can't say it's in perfect condition anymore; oops; I just couldn't put the book down. Corrie ten Boom is an excellent writer; she keeps you captivated. I would read at night and fall asleep with the book in my hands (that's why it's not in perfect condition anymore).I found things personal in the book that made me laugh because I always thought I was one of a kind and then I found so many things similar to Corrie, even our birthdays, not years. I just wish I had more of her upbringing to be so strong in prayer and the Word and to bring EVERYTHING, no matter how big or small, to the Lord in prayer. What an amazing woman she was and to have had such an impact on so many lives; to have lived such a long life and to have seen the seeds she planted to come into fruition was truly amazing and a special gift from Jehovah, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.I can't say it enough...I LOVED IT!