Corrie Ten Boom Essay

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Corrie ten Boom was a Dutch Christian famous for saving eight hundred Jews’ lives by hiding them in her home in Haarlem, the Netherlands. Due to her family’s Christian values, they were fiercely against the persecution of Jews; they felt it was unjust to human and God. In 1942, Corrie, her father, and her sister joined the BeJe Resistance and began to look for fugitives and Resistance fighters and bring them to safe places to hide from the Nazis. Corrie had a fake wall in her house. Behind it was a secret room the size of a closet that could hide up to six people at a time. She and 30 other people were arrested on February 28, 1944 and spent almost an entire year in prisons and concentration camps. Throughout this time, she lost both her

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