Corrie’s first love was a man named Karel, but he was from a well-to-do family who wanted him to “marry well,” and the Ten Booms weren’t from society.ĭuring the 1920s Corrie learned her father’s trade and became one of the first female watchmakers in the Netherlands. He was outspoken about the Dutch being taken over by the Nazis. Willem, the only brother graduated from Theology School. Casper, her father was known as “Haarlem’s Grand Old Man.” He was a well liked watch repairman.
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Their house was always full as she had two older sisters, an older brother and three of her mother’s sisters living with them. The Early Yearsīorn in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on April 15, 1892, she and her family moved to Haarlem when she was 8 months old. She and her family hid and rescued hundreds of Jews and members of the resistance movement from the Nazis. Read the story in Corrie’s own words here.Cornelia “Corrie” ten Boom, author of The Hiding Place as well as many other books, was a Dutch Christian survivor of the Holocaust. He asked her forgiveness for his horrible actions, and she found that her faith gave her the power to forgive. At one of her speaking engagements, she was reunited with a Ravenbrueck guard, a man who had played a key role in the tragic death of her sister. In addition to speaking out about the central role her Christian faith played in her wartime actions, she proved committed to the Messiah’s teachings on forgiveness. What is particularly notable about Corrie ten Boom is her life after the war. Her release happened one week before all the women in the camp her age were killed. These were little previews of heaven, these evenings beneath the light bulb.” Betsie died there in December 1944, and Corrie was released days later due to a clerical error.
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And then we would hear the life-giving words passed back along the aisles in French, Polish, Russian, Czech, and back into Dutch. Because only the Hollanders could understand the text we would translate aloud in German. Corrie wrote, “At last either Betsie or I would open the Bible. These services blossomed into a multi-denominational taste of God’s Kingdom. While in the concentration camp, the sisters used their secret Bible to hold worship services for the other prisoners. In September, they were moved to the Ravensbrueck concentration camp in Germany. The sisters remained in prison until June, when they were transferred to an internment camp in another part of the country. Casper became sick shortly after arriving in prison and had died within ten days of the arrest. Of the ten Boom family members who had been arrested, all were released save Corrie, her sister, Betsie, and their father, Casper. Resistance workers who entered the house during the raid were also arrested, along with a group of friends who had been holding a prayer meeting in the living room of the home. Those who were hiding remained undiscovered, while Corrie, along with her father, two sisters, brother, and other family members were arrested. The German police raided the ten Boom home in February, 1944. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.” Casper ten Boom, Corrie’s father, had overheard the conversation and entered the room, embracing the child and saying, “You say we could lose our lives for this child. This work continued for eighteen months, blooming into the center of an underground movement that spread nationwide.Ĭorrie later told of a time she had asked a local pastor to shield a Jewish mother and her infant child.
She worked with the underground resistance in Holland to obtain ration books for those Jewish people she was hiding, and coordinating the hiding of others in the Dutch countryside. Corrie and her sister, Betsie, began to hide Jews within their family home. Once the war began, many members of the ten Boom family became involved in resistance efforts. Rather than force conversions, however, he studied anti-Semitism and opened a nursing home for people of all faiths that eventually became a safe house for Jewish refugees during the war. Her brother, Willem, a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, had been assigned to convert Jews to the Christian faith. Her grandfather had supported efforts to improve Jewish-Christian relations in the nineteenth century. Her father owned a small jewelry store in the Jewish section of the city, and they joined with their Jewish neighbors in Sabbath worship and Bible study. Even before the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II, the ten Boom family had a history of concern for Jewish people. Corrie ten Boom was born in 1892, to a family of Dutch Reformed faith in the Netherlands.
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