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0687387825

(ISBN-13: 9780687387823)

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Cornelia Johanna Arnalda 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.
Ten Boom was born in Haarlem, North Holland, the youngest of four children. Her mother died of a stroke. Her father, she reports, was a well-liked watch repairman. Her sister Betsie was born with pernicious anemia and never married. According to Ten Boom, her brother Willem was obsessed with politics, graduated from a theology school, and always saw the dark side of things. He married and fathered four children. Her last sibling, Nollie, also married, and had six children. Ten Boom herself never married. She said in later life that she had had one love, Karel, from the age of fourteen to her early twenties. After Karel married another woman, she vowed that she would never love another man.
The Ten Boom family was by all accounts a family with strong Christian beliefs. According to The Hiding Place, in 1918, the family took in the first of many children that they would shelter over the years.
She 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.
In 1940, the Nazis invaded the Netherlands and banned Ten Boom's club organization. By 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 without forcing conversions, and even provided Kosher food and honored the Sabbath.
The Germans arrested the entire Ten Boom family on February 28, 1944 with the help of a Dutch informant (Ten Boom would later discover his name to be Jan Vogel). They were sent first to Scheveningen prison, 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 Ten Boom's sister Betsie died. Ten Boom was released in December 1944. 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.
After the war, Ten Boom returned to the Netherlands to set up rehabilitation centers. She returned to Germany in 1946, and many years of itinerant teaching in over sixty countries followed, during which time she wrote many books.
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.
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, on her ninety-first birthday. She was said to have been happy about dying on her birthday because she could "celebrate it with the Lord".
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. Oskar Schindler is also honored there.
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. However, 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.
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 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 is 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.

1992

18.12.2011

BN3624