Corrie Ten Boom Research Paper

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If you had diabetes back in the 1900's you had to check your blood sugar every week by boiling your blood on the stove. If the boiling blood turned black, you knew you were going to die soon.

Corrie Ten Boom was the first licensed women watchmaker in Holland.

Before Holland was invaded, they remained neutral in the war. However, when Holland got bombed by Germany they surrendered quickly after.

After Holland was invaded, the citizen’s curfew was 10 pm, they had to turn in their radios, and they had to carry small folders containing photographs and fingerprints with them all the time.

As the Nazi treated Jews badly, so did fellow Dutch citizens. Soon many buildings didn't allow Jews and their synagogue were burned down and all Jews had
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At the camp, the bible from which Betsie read was the center of an even wider circle of help and hope

The Barracks which Betsie and Corrie slept were made to hold 400 women but instead 1,400 women had to share the space.

Betsie was able to hold bible services in the Barracks because the guards wouldn't go into the room because it was too filled with fleas.

Betsie became sick and her fever was over the required temperature to stay in a hospital bed so she went to the hospital.

Betsie had a vision where she and Corrie would have a large house to which people who had been damaged by concentration camps would come until they felt ready to live again in the normal world.

Betsie peacefully died soon after she entered the hospital.

Corrie was released and was given underthings, a woken skirt, a silk blouse, sturdy shoes, a hat, and an overcoat to return home in.

Betsie's 3 visions had come true: She and Corrie were out of prison, Corrie was provided a large house that had exactly the same details that Betsie had explained, and a former concentration camp was given to Corrie which would be designed in Betsie's

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