Used
Paperback
1990
$3.50
This autobiographical account describes the years before The Hiding Place , telling the story of Corrie's childhood in Holland. The ten Boom home was a narrow, three-storey stucco and brick watchshop in Haarlem, Holland, called the Beje . Corrie was born there and in the book recounts the memorable characters who shaped her early life. With an ever-changing entourage of adopted ten Booms - unwanted foster children, displaced refugees, hunted Jews - the Beje was a home where everyone felt welcome. Corrie ten Boom was the author of The Hiding Place , which records her family's underground activities to protect Jews against the Nazis in Holland. The book launched her into a ministry of speaking, teaching and writing as she became famous the world over - a ministry which lasted until her death in 1983 at the age of 91. In My Father's House is being re-issued to coincide with the centenary of her birth alongside The Five Silent Years of Corrie ten Boom by Pamela Rosewell.