Beth White's Reviews > Corrie Ten Boom: The Watchmaker’s Daughter

Read as part of The StoryGraph’s Genre Challenge 2023: Prompt 4. A biography about someone you don't know much about

I have heard Corrie Ten Boom talked about multiple times in the past but has never got around to reading her autobiography “The Hiding Place”. The ask for this prompt was to find a biography specifically so I was thrilled to find that there was a biography written about Corrie by Jean Watson and available on Audible! I am so so so happy to have found, chosen, and read this book.

An absolutely remarkable story of courage, faith, and love in the face of so much evil. Inspiring doesn’t quite cut it as a word to describe this woman who went through everything she did and still managed to spend her life spreading a message of love - including to those who caused the very pain she went through and atrocities she witnessed. It is such a challenge to me as I work to forgive others who have harmed me far less than what she went through but also reassuring that she didn’t do it in her own strength but instead through the strength Jesus gave her.

It was also fascinating to read a book on inspirational individuals from WW2 who weren’t Jews. The story of Corrie is that of a woman in Nazi occupied Holland who chose to put herself at risk my helping others.

This is an amazing faith building, motivational, insightful, and honestly jaw dropping book that I recommend to absolutely anyone to read.