Corrie Ten Boom

FRUMPY MIDDLE-AGED WATCHMAKER TO ARCH ENEMY OF THE NAZISCorrie ten Boom defied Nazis as a member of the Dutch Resistance. She was probably the least pious member of her family, yet she also helped hide Jews and young Dutch boys in her family’s ‘Hiding Place’. In February 1944 the Gestapo arrested 51-year-old Corrie and her entire family. One year later she was back home but her father and sister had died in prison. Corrie had survived internment at Scheveningen in Holland and the notorious Ravensbrück work camp near Berlin that meant almost certain death. Not resting she threw herself into service. She started rehabilitation facilities in her own Holland, then compelled to forgive, she served the same way in Germany. Then she traveled to 66 countries with the message of Christ. She owned two dresses, refusing money and living off royalties. For she collaborated on books about her wild experiences.She died on her 91st birthday. She had made thousands of appearances and written books that sold in the millions. Billy Graham had produced a popular movie about her. The Queen of Holland knighted her. Israel honored her as one of the ‘Righteous among the Nations’, i.e., a non-Jew who saved Jews during the terrible Holocaust years.