Cornelia Arnolda Johanna ten Boom (1892 - 1983)

Born 15 Apr 1892 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

Ancestors

Died 15 Apr 1983 at age 91 in Placentia, Orange, California, United States

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Biography

Corrie ten Boom is Notable.

Corrie ten Boom was designated Righteous Among the Nations for helping many Jews escape the Holocaust.

Cornelia "Corrie" ten Boom was a Dutch Christian who, along with her father and other family members, helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust during World War II. She was imprisoned for her actions. Her most famous book, The Hiding Place, describes the ordeal. ^[1]

Her father, Casper ten Boom, worked as a watchmaker, and in 1924 Corrie became the first licensed female watchmaker in the Netherlands. Corrie and her sister Betsie never married, and until their arrest they lived their entire lives in their childhood home in Haarlem. Corrie also ran a church for mentally-disabled people, raised foster children in her home, and was extremely active in other charitable causes.^[1]

The ten Boom family were members of the Dutch Reformed Church, which protested Nazi persecution of Jews as an injustice to fellow human beings and an affront to divine authority.^[2]

After World War II began, members of the ten Boom family became involved in resistance efforts. ^[3]The Ten Booms family began "the hiding place", or "de schuilplaats", as it was known in Dutch (also known as "de Béjé", pronounced in Dutch as 'bayay', an abbreviation of their street address, the Barteljorisstraat). Corrie and Betsie opened their home to refugees — both Jews and others who were members of the resistance movement — being sought by the Gestapo and its Dutch counterpart.^[1]

For her efforts to hide Jews from arrest and deportation during the German occupation of the Netherlands, Corrie ten Boom received recognition from the Yad Vashem Remembrance Authority as one of the "Righteous Among the Nations" on December 12, 1967. In resisting Nazi persecution, ten Boom acted in concert with her religious beliefs, her family experience, and the Dutch resistance. Her defiance led to imprisonment, internment in a concentration camp, and loss of family members who died from maltreatment while in German custody. ^[4] Corrie wrote the book, The Hiding Place describing her experiences.

In 1976, Corrie was looking for a new companion as Ellen de Kroon was leaving to marry. Pamela Rosewell Moore became her new traveling companion.^[5]

Honors

• Israel honored Ten Boom by naming her Righteous Among the Nations.^[1]
• Ten Boom was knighted by the Queen of the Netherlands in recognition of her work during the war.^[1]
• The Ten Boom Museum in Haarlem is dedicated to her and her family for their work.^[1]
• The King's College in New York City named a new women's house in her honor.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6} https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrie_ten_Boom
2. ↑ Holocaust Encyclopedia
3. ↑ Holocaust Encyclopedia
4. ↑ Holocaust Encyclopedia
5. ↑ Moore, Pamela Rosewell. The Five Silent Years. Grand Rapids, Michigan, Zondervan Publishing House, 1986.

• Corrie ten Boom at Wikipedia
• Holocaust Encyclopedia
• Ten Boom Museum
• Katie Walker. Corrie ten Boom: Actions and Legacies of the Holocaust.
• Pamela Rosewater. The Five Silent Years of Corrie ten Boom. Grand Rapids, Michigan. 1986.

See also:

• The Ten Boom Museum: 360 Degree Virtual Tour
• https://fromthevault.wheaton.edu/2019/02/01/the-travels-of-corrie-ten-boom/
• https://backroadplanet.com/searching-the-world-for-corrie-ten-boom/
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22002/corrie-ten_boom

See also

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