For those who don’t know, Corrie and Betsie ten Boom lived in the 1940s; they hid Jews in their home in the Netherlands during the Holocaust. They were caught and sent to a concentration camp.

Corrie Ten Boom and her family saved more than 800 Jewish refugees. The Nazis took everything from her and she still found it in her heart to forgive them.

Corrie ten Boom and her family hid Jews and others from the Nazis during World War II. Before the war ended they were sent to concentration camps. Ten Boom family members are heroes.

Four members of the ten Boom family, including the 84-year-old patriarch, Caspar, and Corrie’s sister Betsie, would die at the hands of the Nazis for what they did. Reading The Hiding Place as a ...

Stories of self-sacrifice generated in wartime always make for compelling human drama, which helps explain the ongoing popularity of the stage version of “The Diary of Anne Frank.” &#82… ...

Corrie’s father, Casper ten Boom, 84, died in prison 10 days after his arrest. One of her older sisters, Betsie ten Boom, 59, died in the Ravensbruck concentration camp where they both lived ...

The Ten Boom family home in Haarlem, Holland, was a safe house […] Skip to content. ... By some estimates, Corrie, her father, Casper, and her sister Betsie helped save 800 Jews before Feb. 28 ...

Some 30,000 Jews of Holland were hidden during that era. Anne Frank was one of those 30,000. Like other resistant Dutch, the ten Booms had fake walls built in their homes in order hide Jewish ...

Guthrie then recounts ten Boom’s life up to the publication of The Hiding Place.She was born into a Dutch Reformed family in 1892. Beginning with her grandfather, Willem, in the 1840s, the ten ...

And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all. And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul’s neck, and kissed him, Sorrowing most of ...

Betsie was one of them. ... One of my favorite quotes is from Corrie ten Boom, which is a great reminder of the source of her courage. She liked to say: “Look to others, be distressed.