Corrie ten Boom (1892-1983) · AuthorAuthor
Corrie ten Boom
1892-1983 · Dutch watchmaker and Christian speaker who sheltered Jews during the Second World War
About Corrie ten Boom
Cornelia (Corrie) ten Boom (1892–1983) was born in Haarlem, the Netherlands, into a Dutch Reformed family of watchmakers, and in the 1920s became the first woman licensed as a watchmaker in the country. During the German occupation she and her family sheltered Jews and resistance workers in their home above the shop. After her imprisonment and release in 1944 she opened a rehabilitation home in Bloemendaal, then spent some three decades traveling and speaking in many countries about forgiveness and the love of God. Yad Vashem recognized her as Righteous Among the Nations in 1967. She moved to California in 1977 and died there on her ninety-first birthday.
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The Hiding PlaceCorrie ten Boom
1971 · Postwar Contemporary · Memoir
The Hiding Place is Corrie ten Boom's memoir, written with John and Elizabeth Sherrill, of her family's life in Haarlem, their work hiding Jews during the German occupation of the Netherlands, and her imprisonment with her sister Betsie in Nazi prisons and camps.
It opens in January 1937 with the hundredth anniversary of the watch shop in the narrow old house called the Beje, where Corrie, then in her forties and unmarried, lives with her father Casper and her older sister Betsie.