The Hiding Place

6/18/2025

The Ten Boom family have been running their family clock-making shop in Amsterdam for many a-year until the Nazis arrive and send their lives into a downward spiral. These are principled Christian fellows, but they have great affinity with their Jewish compatriots and so as the oppression endures, they attempt to help smuggle people to safety. This, as you’d expect, exposes them to considerable risk and - a bit like Al Capone’s tax evasion, it’s a technicality that leads to them being apprehended. They need to feed their charges and so have accumulated a few extra ration books. That’s illegal and so used as an excuse to deport “Corrie” (Jeannette Clift) and “Betsie” (Julie Harris) to Ravensbrück. What now ensues has a brutality to it that reminded me very much of the later “Tenko” dramatis