How long does it take to read The Hiding Place?
Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill, John Scherrill, Jill De Haan, Daniel Strange
The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill, John Scherrill, Jill De Haan, Daniel Strange takes about 4 hours 25 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 25 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1971. 241 pages, about 66,275 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 22 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 25 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 46 minutes |
The page count is the median across 56 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Hiding Place is an autobiography in which Corrie ten Boom, a watchmaker in the Dutch town of Haarlem, recalls her life with her elderly father, Casper, and her sister Betsie in the family home above their shop, the Béjé. When the Nazis invade the Netherlands in 1940, the family's Christian convictions push them to shelter Jews. Corrie finds herself drawn into black market dealings and stolen ration cards, and troubled by the lying and forgery involved. The Dutch underground has a secret room built in the house. The title points both to that refuge and to a verse in Psalm 119.
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Subjects: Ravensbrück (Concentration camp), Concentration camps, Personal narratives, Dutch, Ravensbruc̈k (Concentration camp), Ravensbru ck (Concentration camp), Ten Boom, Corrie
