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Watch Movies Online Free See the entire 1975 WWP classic "The Hiding Place" in streaming RealVideo. The picture quality on your computer may not be perfect, but it is the perfect opportunity to test a new way to view movies. Let us know what you think -- e-mail us at marketing@wwp.org. Produced by Billy Graham's Evangelistic Association and based on an autobiographical novel by Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place is an account of a Dutch family who risk their lives by offering a safe haven for Jews during World War II. Jason Ankeny
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The Hiding Place
Corrie Ten Boom stood naked with her older sister Betsie, watching a concentration camp matron beating a prisoner."Oh, the poor woman," Corrie cried."Yes. May God forgive her," Betsie replied. And, once again, Corrie realized that it was for the souls of the brutal Nazi guards that her sister prayed.
Here is a book aglow with the glory of God and the courage of a quiet
Christian spinster whose life was transformed by it. A story of Christ's
message and the courageous woman who listened and lived to pass it along —
with joy and triumph!
Corrie ten Boom was spinster daughter of a Dutch watchmaker who never
thought her life would amount to anything amazing. When war came to their
town, she used the values taught by her parents, religion, and country to help
hide, feed, and take care of persecuted Jews. She was the the center of a vast
network of the underground. The hiding place in her own home was hidden in the
wall behind her own bed. Corrie and her family were captured and sent to a
string of prisons. Corrie emerges from Ravensbruck near the end of the war,
having lost many things. But her faith and determination live on and reach out
to others.
TV Guide Review: After the Germans invade Amsterdam in WW II, a Dutch watchmaker (Arthur O'Connell) and his daughters devote themselves to saving persecuted Jews, laboring to outwit the SS troops that patrol the area and recruit others to their cause. They are caught, however, and sent to a concentration camp. THE HIDING PLACE is based on an autobiographical novel by Corrie ten Boom, who was 80 when the film was made and delivers its epilog. An accurate and inspiring representation of a period in history that has been placed on film countless times, this version adds little that's new to the depiction, but is still a worthwhile and honorable picture. It was produced by World Wide Pictures, a branch of the Billy Graham Evangelical Association, hence its deeply Christian themes.
