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Cornelia Johanna Arnolda ten Boom, generally known as Corrie ten Boom, (April 15, 1892 – April 15, 1983) was a Dutch Christian Holocaust survivor who helped many Jews escape the Nazis during World War II. Ten Boom co-wrote her autobiography, The Hiding Place, which was later made into a movie of the same name. In December, 1967, Ten Boom was honored as one of the Righteous Among the Nations by the State of Israel. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... is the 105th day of the year (106th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... is the 105th day of the year (106th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Jimi Hendrix song, see 1983. ... For other uses, see Christian (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Holocaust (disambiguation) and Shoah (disambiguation). ... Nazism in history Nazi ideology Nazism and race Outside Germany Related subjects Lists Politics Portal         Nazism or National Socialism (German: Nationalsozialismus), refers primarily to the ideology and practices of the Nazi Party (National Socialist German Workers Party, German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) under Adolf Hitler. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... The Hiding Place is a 1971 book on the life of Corrie ten Boom written by Corrie together with John and Elizabeth Sherrill. ... The Hiding Place is a 1975 film based on the autobiographical book of the same name by Corrie ten Boom recounting her and her familys experiences before and during their imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust in World War II. As the Nazis invaded Holland, Corrie... Righteous Among the Nations (Hebrew: חסידי אומות העולם, Hasidei Umot HaOlam), in contemporary usage, is a term often used to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust in order to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis. ... The State of Israel (Hebrew: מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, transliteration: ; Arabic: دَوْلَةْ اِسْرَائِيل, transliteration: ) is a country in the Middle East on the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea. ...

Early life

Corrie ten Boom was born on April 15, 1892 in Amsterdam, the youngest of four children. They moved to Harlem within a few months of her birth. Her mother died of a stroke at the age of 63. Her father Casper ten Boom was a well-liked watch repairman. Her older sister Elizabeth (Betsie) was born with pernicious anemia. They had a brother named Willem who graduated from a theology school and warned the Dutch that unless they took action, they would fall to the Nazis. He wrote a dissertation on racial anti-Semitism at theological college in 1927 in preparation for his ordination. He married and fathered four children. Their last sibling, Nollie, a school teacher, married a teacher and had six children. Corrie fell in love with Karel-- a friend of Williem--but found out that he was engaged. Corrie and Betsie never married and this help to enable to do the work of God in prison. is the 105th day of the year (106th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... For other uses, see Amsterdam (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Harlem (disambiguation). ... Pernicious anemia (also known as Biermers anaemia or Addisons anaemia or Addison-Biermer anaemia) is a form of megaloblastic anaemia due to vitamin B12 deficiency dependent on impaired absorption of vitamin B12 in the setting of atrophic gastritis, and more specifically of loss of gastric parietal cells. ... The Eternal Jew: 1937 German poster. ...

Corrie began training as a watchmaker in 1920 and in 1922 became the first female watchmaker licensed in the Netherlands. In 1923, she helped organize girls' clubs, and in the 1930s these clubs grew to become the very large Triangle club.^[1] The 1930s were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression, also known as the [[. In East Asia, the rise of militarism occurred. ...

Activities during the Holocaust

In 1940, the Nazis invaded the Netherlands and banned Ten Boom's club. In 1942, she and her family had become very active in the Dutch underground, hiding refugees. They rescued many Jews from certain death at the hands of the Nazi SS. They helped Jews because of their veneration for God's Chosen People (though the Ten Boom family was known for their gracious character towards all--especially the handicapped), and even provided kosher food and honored the Sabbath. Corrie's family were strong Christians. She and her family resided at Barteljorisstraat 19, Haarlem, Holland. Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Dutch Underground consisted of many leaders, who would occassionally share information for the hiding and protection of the Jews during the Nazi Holocaust genocide of World War 2. ... SS redirects here. ... The circled U indicates that this product is certified as kosher by the Orthodox Union (OU). ... For other uses, see Sabbath. ...

Harboring of Refugees

In May of 1942, a well-dressed woman came to the Ten Boom door with a suitcase in hand. Nervously, she told Ten Boom that she was a Jew and that her husband had been arrested several months before, and her son had gone into hiding at Corrie ten Boom's home. Occupation authorities had recently visited her, and she was too fearful to return home. After hearing about how they had helped the Weils, she asked if she might stay with them, and Corrie ten Boom's father readily agreed. A devoted reader of the Old Testament, Casper ten Boom believed Jews were indeed "the chosen," and told the woman, "In this household, God's people are always welcome."

Thus began "the hiding place", or "de schuilplaats", as it was known in Dutch (also known as "de BéJé", with BéJé being derived from the name of the street the house was in, the Barteljorisstraat). Ten Boom and her sister began taking in refugees, some of whom were Jews, others members of the resistance movement sought by the Gestapo and its Dutch counterpart. There were several extra rooms in their house, but food was scarce due to wartime shortages. Every non-Jewish Dutch person had received a ration card with which they could procure weekly coupons to buy food. The   (contraction of Geheime Staatspolizei: “secret state police”) was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. ...

Corrie knew many in Haarlem, thanks to her charitable work, and remembered a couple who had a developmentally disabled daughter. For about twenty years, Corrie ten Boom had run a special church service program for such children, and knew the family. The father was a civil servant who was by then in charge of the local ration-card office. She went to his house unannounced one evening, and he seemed to know why. When he asked how many ration cards she needed, "I opened my mouth to say, 'Five,'" Ten Boom wrote in The Hiding Place. "But the number that unexpectedly and astonishingly came out instead was. 'One hundred.'"

The Germans arrested the entire Ten Boom family on February 28, 1944 at around 12:30 with the help of a Dutch informant (Ten Boom would later discover his name to be Jan Vogel^[2]). They were sent first to Scheveningen prison (where her father died ten days after his capture), then to the Vught political concentration camp (both in the Netherlands), and finally to the notorious Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany in September 1944, where Corrie's sister Betsie died.Before she died she told Corrie "There is no pit so deep that God's love is not deeper still." Corrie was released on Christmas Day of December 1944.^[3] In the movie The Hiding Place, Ten Boom narrates the section on her release from camp, saying that she later learned that her release had been a clerical error. The women prisoners her age in the camp were killed the week following her release. Year 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Scheveningen pier Scheveningen is part of Den Haag, the Netherlands. ... Coat of arms Vught is a municipality and a town in the southern Netherlands. ... It has been suggested that Internment be merged into this article or section. ... View of the barracks at Ravensbrück Ravensbrück was a German concentration camp located 90 km north of Berlin. ... Born in the Netherlands in 1895, Elisabeth ten Boom entered the family that her sister, Corrie ten Boom, made famous in the book The Hiding Place. ...

Post-war

After the war, Corrie ten Boom returned to the Netherlands to set up rehabilitation centres. She returned to Germany in 1946, and many years of itinerant teaching in over sixty countries followed, during which time she wrote many books. This theory of punishment is based on the notion that punishment is to be inflicted on a offender so as to reform him, or rehabilitate him so as to make his re-integration into society easier. ... Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Ten Boom told the story of her family and their work during World War II in her most famous book, The Hiding Place (1971), which was made into a film by World Wide Pictures in 1975. The book and film give context to the story of Anne Frank, who was also in hiding in the Netherlands during the war. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... World Wide Pictures (WWP) is a film distributor and production company established as a subsidiary of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) in 1951. ... Annelies Marie Anne Frank ( ) (June 12, 1929 – early March 1945) was a German-born Jewish girl from the city of Frankfurt, who wrote a diary while in hiding with her family, the Van Pels family and Fritz Pfeffer in Amsterdam during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War...

In 1977, Ten Boom, then 85 years old, moved to Orange, California. Successive strokes in 1978 took away her powers of speech and communication and left her an invalid. She died on April 15, 1983, her 91st birthday. She was said to have been happy about dying on her birthday because she could "celebrate it with the Lord". Also: 1977 (album) by Ash. ... Nickname: Motto: A Slice of Old Town Charm Location of Orange within Orange County, California. ... The Strokes are an American rock and roll band who formed in New York City and gained fame for their live shows. ... Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 105th day of the year (106th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Jimi Hendrix song, see 1983. ...

Legacy

Ten Boom was honored by the State of Israel for her work in aid of the Jewish people. She was invited to plant a tree in the Avenue of the Righteous Gentiles, at the Yad Vashem, near Jerusalem. The Hall of Names containing books of all those who perished in the Holocaust. ... For other uses, see Jerusalem (disambiguation). ...

Rabbi Daniel Lapin has commented with regret on how little Corrie ten Boom is known among American Jews, and also how she has been ignored in the U.S. by the Holocaust Memorial Museum. Daniel Lapin (born 1950?) is an American Orthodox rabbi living in Mercer Island, Washington, and the founder of Toward Tradition (a conservative Jewish-Christian organization). ... American Jews, or Jewish Americans, are Jews who are American citizens or resident aliens. ... For other uses of terms redirecting here, see US (disambiguation), USA (disambiguation), and United States (disambiguation) Motto In God We Trust(since 1956) (From Many, One; Latin, traditional) Anthem The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington, D.C. Largest city New York City National language English (de facto)1 Demonym American... Exterior of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is a national institution located adjacent to The National Mall in Washington, DC, dedicated to documenting, studying, and interpreting the history of the Holocaust. ...

Ten Boom was knighted by the Queen of the Netherlands in recognition of her work during the war, and a museum in the Dutch city of Haarlem is dedicated to her and her family. Coordinates: , Country Province Area (2006)  - Municipality 32. ...

Religious views

Her teaching focused on the Christian Gospel, with emphasis on forgiveness. In her book Tramp for the Lord (1974), she tells the story of how, after she had been teaching in Germany in 1947, she was approached by one of the cruelest former Ravensbrück camp guards. She was reluctant to forgive him, but prayed that she would be able to. She wrote that, For other uses, see Gospel (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Forgiveness (disambiguation). ...

For a long moment we grasped each other's hands, the former guard and the former prisoner. I had never known God's love so intensely as I did then.

She also wrote (in the same passage) that in her post-war experience with other victims of Nazi brutality, it was those who were able to forgive who were best able to rebuild their lives.

She was known for her rejection of the Pre-Tribulation Rapture doctrine. Her writings claim that it is without Biblical foundation, and she has claimed that the doctrine left the Christian Church ill-prepared in times of great persecution, such as in China under Mao Zedong. She appeared on many Christian television programs spreading her ordeal with the Holocaust, forgiveness and God's love. For other meanings, see Rapture (disambiguation). ... Mao redirects here. ...

Bibliography

• Corrie ten Boom with John and Elizabeth Sherrill, The Hiding Place, Guideposts Associates, 1971. ISBN 0-340-17930-9, ISBN 0-340-20845-7
• Corrie ten Boom, Tramp for the Lord, 1974.
• Corrie ten Boom, Not Good If Detached, Christian Literature Crusade, 1980.
• Corrie ten Boom, Amazing Love, Christian Literature Crusade, 1982.
• Corrie ten Boom, Defeated Enemies, Christian Literature Crusade, 1983.
• Corrie ten Boom, Common Sense Not Needed-Revised, Christian Literature Crusade, 1994.
• Corrie ten Boom, Marching Orders for End Battle, Christian Literature Crusade.
• Corrie ten Boom, Plenty for Everyone, Christian Literature Crusade, 1980.
• Corrie ten Boom, In my Father's House, 1976.
• Corrie ten Boom, Each New Day, 1981.

John and Elizabeth Sherrill have co-authored a number of best-selling books, including: Gods Smuggler with Brother Andrew The Hiding Place with Corrie ten Boom The Cross and the Switchblade with David Wilkerson David Wilkerson, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill (1962). ...

References

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External links

• Corrie ten Boom museum
• Corrie ten Boom comments regarding the Rapture of the Church.
• Holocaust Rescuers Bibliography
• U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum article
• Haarlem Shuffle - Corrie ten Boom
• Picture of Corrie ten Boom
• The Hiding Place DVD: a remastered DVD including many of her testimonies
• Corrie ten Boom Live