How Corrie Ten Boom Saved Hundreds Of Jews From The Nazis.
How Corrie Ten Boom Saved Hundreds Of Jews From The Nazis. Corrie ten Boom was a Dutch watchmaker who lived above her family's shop when the Nazis invaded the Netherlands in 1940. Soon after, she and her family decided to build a secret room behind a wall in their home and use it to hide Jewish refugees before they could escape to freedom. Over the next four years, Corrie ten Boom saved more than 800 people from the Holocaust. Cornelia Arnolda Johanna "Corrie" ten Boom (15 April 1892– 15 April 1983) was a Dutch watchmaker and later a Christian writer and public speaker, who worked with her father, Casper ten Boom, her sister Betsie ten Boom and other family members to help many Jewish people escape from the Nazis during the Holocaust in World War II by hiding them in her home. They were caught, and she was arrested and sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Her most famous book, The Hiding Place, is a biography that recounts the story of her family's efforts an