Her mother died of a stroke in 1921 when Corrie was 29 years old. She was often seen carrying baskets full of homemade bread and other foods to people in need. Her mother, Cor, was an example of generosity, kindness, and selfless service to her family. She describes her family and their lives in detail in her famous novel, The Hiding Place (1971). Ten Boom began working with several disabled children in her area when she was in her twenties and thirties. In the late 1930s the nursing home became a refuge for Jews fleeing from Germany. Her brother Willem, a Dutch Reformed minister assigned to convert Jews, studied anti-semitism and ran a nursing home for elderly of all faiths. The ten Boom family had a history of personal connections to the Jewish community that went back to Corrie's grandfather, who had supported efforts to improve Christian-Jewish relations in the nineteenth century. They studied the Old Testament together …" They were allowed to participate in their Sabbaths and in their feasts. There, in Amsterdam in that narrow street in the ghetto they met many wonderful Jewish people. "My (parents) … had opened a small jewelry store in a narrow house in the heart of the Jewish section of Amsterdam. Corrie recorded her memories from part of her childhood, that was spent in Amsterdam before the family made a permanent move to Haarlem (a neighboring town). The ten Boom family were members of the Dutch Reformed Church which held a strong belief in the equality of all human beings before God. The Beje: The Ten Boom watch shop and home in Haarlem.Ĭasper and Cor ten Boom married in 1884 and had four children: Betsie, Willem, Nollie, and Corrie.
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