What a great book! About 30 minutes outside Holland, in a town called Haarlem, the ten Boom family is part of the rebellion hiding Jews in their house in an effort to keep them safe from the Nazis during World War II.

I loved Corrie, as she is so real. She fell in love with a young man, and he married someone else. She felt like her older sister was a better person. She tries her best, but she's so human. She feels for the Jews in her town. And she has such determination.

Her older sister Betsie, while physically frail, is a person of so much faith in God.

These two sisters, in conjunction with the rest of their family, take on so much risk to do what's right.

There were times of great humor in this book even in times of such despair. It was such a human book. I particularly enjoyed the drills that they would go through for the Jews to get into their hiding place as quickly as possible, and how they'd try to shave time off.

The heartbreaking parts are when Corrie and Betsie are thrown into jail, and then they keep getting more to a worse place until they finally end up in Ravensbruck the concentration camp.