The Hiding Place is an autobiographical book written by Corrie ten Boom with John and Elizabeth Sherrill.

In the preface to the book, the Sherrills recount: ...his [Brother Andrew's] fascinating stories about her in Vietnam, where she had earned that most honorable title "Double-old Grandmother" - and in a dozen other Communist countries - came to mind so often that we finally had to hold up her hands to stop his flow of reminiscence.

Casper lives with his two unmarried daughters; Corrie, the narrator and a watchmaker herself, and Betsie, who takes care of the house.

It seems as if everyone in the Dutch town of Haarlem has shown up to the party, including Corrie's sister Nollie, her brother Willem, and her nephews Peter and Kik.

Corrie, who had grown to think of herself as a middle-aged spinster, becomes entangled in black market operations, uses stolen ration cards, and eventually hides Jews in her own home.

Corrie suffers a moral crisis over the lying, theft, forgery, and bribery that are necessary to keep the Jews that her family is hiding.

The Dutch underground arranges for a secret room to be built in the Béjé so that the Jews will have a place to hide during an inevitable raid.

Rolf, a friend who is a police officer, trains her to be able to think clearly any time when the Nazis invade her home and start to question her.

The entire family is arrested, along with the shop employees, but the Jews manage to stay hidden in the secret room.

Meanwhile, Corrie was sent to Scheveningen, a Dutch prison nicknamed '"Oranjehotel"', a hotel for people loyal to the House of Orange.

After four months at Scheveningen, Corrie and Betsie are transferred to Vught, a concentration camp for political prisoners in the Netherlands.

When a counteroffensive against the Nazis seems imminent, the prisoners are shipped by train to Germany, where they are imprisoned at Ravensbrück, a notorious women's concentration camp.