Corrie ten Boom

Cornelia ten Boom was born in Haarlem, the Netherlands, into a devout Christian family. Her father, Casper, was a watchmaker, and in 1922 Corrie became the first woman licensed as a watchmaker in the country. After Germany occupied the Netherlands in 1940, the ten Booms joined the Dutch resistance. They built a small secret room behind a false wall in Corrie's bedroom, and hid Jews and resistance workers there; the family helped many people escape. In February 1944 an informer betrayed them, and the Gestapo arrested the family, though the people hiding in the secret room were not found. Her father died within days in prison. Corrie and her sister Betsie were sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany, where they held secret Bible readings. Betsie died there in December 1944, and Corrie was released shortly afterward because of a clerical error. After the war she opened a home for people recovering from the war and traveled to more than sixty countries speaking about forgiveness. Her book The Hiding Place appeared in 1971. She died in California on her ninety-first birthday in 1983.

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Faith: Raised a Calvinist Christian in the Dutch Reformed Church; her family's faith led them to shelter people in danger during the Second World War. Source: Wikipedia